Re: epoch to UTCstring conversion at leap-second boundary

[email protected] (Dave Rolsky)
Newsgroups perl.datetime
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Karen Etheridge wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 01:32:24PM -0700, Andrew Davis wrote:
>> The 'hour' parameter ("24") to DateTime::new did not pass the 'an
>> integer between 0 and 23' callback
>>
>> I'm hoping someone can tell me the best way to avoid the error, and
>> get the "2008-12-31T23:59:60" output that I want.
>
> This sounds like a bug in DateTime core - just as it isn't always invalid
> for months (for February, in leap years) to be [0,28], it is not always
> invalid for 'seconds' to be [0,59] or hours [0,23] (for leap seconds).

Say what? The hour is always 0-23, regardless of leap seconds or DST.


-dave

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