michael.deckers said: >> However, this suggestion of increasing the limit of DUT1 should >> go hand in hand with another change made in Rec. 460. The original >> draft of 460 which was presented to the CCIR Plenary Assembly >> suggested that the leaps should be full seconds or "integral >> multiples thereof". > > Very interesting, thanks! The "double leap second" resurfaced > in the ISO standard for C in 1989.
However, this (and its adoption by reference into Posix) was due to a misunderstanding by the people in WG14 at the time. When I fully understood what was going on, I got WG14 to fix the C Standard (and, again by reference, Posix) to only allow 61 seconds per minute at most. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: cl...@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646 _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
