barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett) (06/19/91)
In article <1991Jun17.185953.26845@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >> <6313530@mkist.ruhr.sub.org> unparsable Date: `10 Jun 91 18:60:58 MEST' > The first is okay except for that "60". Right. However, on days when a leap second is inserted, the time 23:59:60 is valid. I didn't spend long checking, but a brief glance at C News getdate.y suggested that it will reject such times. --apb Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa RFC822: barrett@ee.und.ac.za Bang: m2xenix!quagga!undeed!barrett
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (06/19/91)
In article <1991Jun19.062205.27097@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA> barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett) writes: >23:59:60 is valid. I didn't spend long checking, but a brief glance at >C News getdate.y suggested that it will reject such times. getdate.y was picked up from B News, and is obsolete and slowly being phased out. The thing to look at is the date routines in our libc directory. It looks to me like they don't like leap seconds; this was an oversight and will be corrected. -- "We're thinking about upgrading from | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry