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Date:      Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:53:43 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD handles leapsecond correctly 
Message-ID:  <80432.1136235223@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:50:32 %2B0100." <m3psnagxrb.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> 

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In message <m3psnagxrb.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>, Matthias Andree writes:

>And tell me one reason why the leap second must be discontinued while
>the leap day (Feb 29th) can be carried on. It's the same story,
>irregular rollover, inserting one particular unit of time.

You are clearly not thinking rationally here.

I know already now that year 2048 will be a leap year, but I still
don't know if there will be a leap second on june 30th 2006.

>> None of them got it right by any strech of the imagination because 
>> it is impossible to get it right and be POSIX compliance.
>
>Wow, and you claim FreeBSD handles it correctly.

Yes, FreeBSD handles it correctly under the impossible constraints
of POSIX.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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