* Paul Eggert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now as I understand it the Unix time can't represent the > > leapsecond in the seconds-since-epoch, but if that is a valid > > UTC date then should it really accept it as input ? > > Yes, on hosts that support leap seconds. On hosts that don't > one could argue either way, but at least the behavior should > be documented.
Are you sure that whatever change made date stop taking the 60 only stopped it on hosts that don't support leap second? > The other point you mentioned I think has already been addressed > in CVS coreutils. > > Thanks for mentioning the problems. I installed this patch. Thanks. Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
