compile errors on timezone database

Dave Rolsky autarch at urth.org
Wed Dec 3 17:41:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) wrote:

> Another possibility is to change the spelling of...
> 	24:00
> ...to...
> 	23:59:60
> ...which works with any version of zic issued 1988 or later.
> Let's hear it for leap seconds!

Please don't do this.  This is a bogus time, because there is no leap
second at that time.  24:00 makes a lot more sense.  Plus my parsing code
already handles it and I don't want to have to make more changes ;)


-dave

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