Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009

Alan Cox
2009-01-07T09:38:18Z

> "man 2 time" on Debian Lenny. The treatment of leap years looks ridiculous, but
> within the context of a 32-bit time_t, all divisible-by-4 years between 1901 and
> 2038 are leap years. It's a bit of a problem for 64-bit time_t though.

Then Debian documentation needs fixing. POSIX fixed their definition some
years ago.