At 05:13 -0400 2001.08.06, John Abreau wrote:
>John Tobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:55:33PM -0400, Bill Ricker wrote:
>> >
>> > Unambiguously, ISO standard time is 2001-09-09-01:46:40Z.
>>
>> Hmm, this seems to ignore leap seconds. Anybody know how many there
>> have been?
>
>I seem to recall reading somewhere that the ISO standard for time does in
>fact
>deal correctly with leap seconds, by appending them to the previous minute.
>Whereas most minutes run from 00..59, a minute with a leap-second tacked on
>runs from 00..60.
>
>I probably read this in an SQL tutorial in the distant past.
I understood that the Unix epoch value does not include leap seconds. My
understanding could be wrong.
But just like no one cared that the celebrated millennium did not actually
represent a completion of 2000 years since the birth of Christ, no one now
cares that 1e9 does not actually represent 1e9 seconds since Jan 1 1970
00:00:00 UTC. We only care about the clock looking a certain way (and some
of us don't even care about that :).
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