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

Alan Cox
2009-01-06T18:32:16Z

> UTC equivalent to conversion on the naive basis that leap seconds are ignored and all
> years divisible by 4 are leap years. This value is not the same as the actual number of
> seconds between the time and the Epoch, because of leap seconds and because clocks are not
> required to be synchronized to a standard reference.

I'm not sure what you are quoting from but it is out of date on the
subject of leap years.

The rest looks right.