Re: localtime()

(missingheaders, why… a mail with an entry in Cc and none
in To, or even none in To and Cc only Bcc, is fully valid)

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Peter Conrad wrote:

>  - UTC is written as calendar date and clock time, not as seconds
>    since epoch.

Yes.

>    Therefore I think your conclusion that counting
>    leap seconds is required by law is wrong.

It’s implicit (and more verbose in ZeitG): to be able
to have a Jan 1 00:59:60 CET, the leap second must
exist in the system.

bye,
//mirabilos
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