[tz] zoneinfo vs zoneinfo-leaps

Guy Harris guy at alum.mit.edu
Tue Nov 17 19:50:15 UTC 2015


On Nov 17, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Guy Harris <guy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Which is only usable external information if the leap second is in progress.  If you want to know after the fact, well, you're out of luck, and I doubt that any POSIX-compliant gmtime() will return June 30, 2015, 16:59:60 for that value.

Well, no, they wouldn't, as that's California time for that value, not UTC.

However, I also doubt they'd return 2015-06-30 23:59:60 UTC for it.


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