[LEAPSECS] Leap seconds ain't broken, but most implementations are broken

[Zefram]

John Sauter wrote:
>                "How any changes to the value of seconds since the
>Epoch are made to align to a desired relationship with the current
>actual time is implementation-defined. As represented in seconds since
>the Epoch, each and every day shall be accounted for by exactly 86400
>seconds."

Accounted for, yes.  That doesn't say how long the days actually are,
only how they are to be counted.

-zefram