[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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