[tz] [PROPOSED] Fix ambiguous leapsecs by rolling up to a minute

Tim Parenti tim at timtimeonline.com
Mon Sep 13 00:33:53 UTC 2021


On Sun, 12 Sept 2021 at 19:43, Paul Eggert via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:

> seconds of that minute are numbered through 60 instead of through 59 so
> that there's room for the leap second. The attached patch attempts to
> fix this confusion too.


Very close, but such a minute would have been the result of adding a 61st
second, not a 60th.  Proposed fix attached.

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Tim Parenti
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