Re: date -d and the leapsecond

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Paul Eggert (address@hidden) wrote:
> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Now as I understand it the Unix time can't represent the
> > leapsecond in the seconds-since-epoch, but if that is a valid
> > UTC date then should it really accept it as input ?
> 
> Yes, on hosts that support leap seconds.  On hosts that don't
> one could argue either way, but at least the behavior should
> be documented.

Are you sure that whatever change made date stop taking
the 60 only stopped it on hosts that don't support leap second?

> The other point you mentioned I think has already been addressed
> in CVS coreutils.
> 
> Thanks for mentioning the problems.  I installed this patch.

Thanks.

Dave
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