[LEAPSECS] Meeting with Wayne Whyte

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> michael.deckers said:

> >

> >    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.


I wondered if it dated back further, perhaps to the /usr/group standard.
I don't have my copy of the BSD SCCS repository to hand, but the 4.3-Tahoe
manual (dating from 1987-8 ish) still says seconds go from 0-59.

Tony.
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