Ray Bellis <ray.bel...@nominet.org.uk> wrote: > day = (now - now % 86400) > > where "now" is the output of "gmtime()" of equivalent to calculate the > number of days since the epoch. > > How is this affected (or not) by the presence of leap seconds, and/or > any proposal to remove them.
It is not affected because it is guaranteed to work by POSIX's definition of "seconds since the epoch", which ignores leap seconds. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_15 Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Shannon, South Rockall: Variable 4, becoming cyclonic, then southwesterly, 5 to 7, perhaps gale 8 later in south Rockall. Rough. Occasional rain. Moderate or good. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
