Re: [Patch] patch -Z not working if timestamp contains seconds >=59.5

["Christian Franke" <Christian dot Franke at t-online dot de>]

Peter Ekberg wrote:

> If you thought about all that, maybe you also thought about leap
seconds?
> Isn't it valid to have 60 in the seconds field when a leap second is
added?

Yes, this should be valid.
But maketime() does not provide portable support for it, because it
relies on gmtime/localtime of the platform's libc.
On Cygwin, maketime() does not accept 2005-12-31 23:59:60 UTC as a valid
time.

Cheers

Christian




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