[tz] Leap seconds puzzle

Clive D.W. Feather clive at davros.org
Thu Apr 9 05:49:31 UTC 2015


Ted Cabeen said:
> Note however, that time_t does properly handle February 29th, because 
> that is a large enough difference that it does matter, and every program 
> that needs to measure time intervals in days over years has to correct 
> for it.  (Sometimes correctly, and like we'll see in 2100, sometimes 
> not.  We got lucky in 2000.)

I seem to recall some software thought it wasn't a leap year.

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