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Re: Error in "man date"
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: Error in "man date" |
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Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:17:24 -0600 |
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> [2002-09-13 11:17:08 +0200]:
> The range must be [0..60] to accommodate the
> occasional `positive' leap second.
I was curious as to how date would know it was a leap second or not.
I had always assumed that it would just use seconds since the epoch
start in 1970 and that would be all it would know. (Sitting here with
a funny face asking myself, "How would it know?") Sorry for being
lazy. I will dig through the code to answer that.
Thanks
Bob