[LEAPSECS] BBC article

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Thu Nov 17 09:49:59 EST 2011


On 2011 Nov 17, at 05:31, Peter Vince wrote:

> the lack of leap-seconds in most of Canada. How does that work?


It works like the javascript on this page
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/epochtime.html
which risks restarting some totally pedantic and legalistic
arguments of the sort we're now seeing about POSIX and C time
because the standards documents are self-inconsistent in the
presence of the reality that UTC has had leap seconds.

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