Updates to K&R 2

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Mon Jun 5 21:35:20 AEST 1989


In article <1110 at osf.OSF.ORG> dbrooks at osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
>I thought that only one leap second would be added at a time (only one
>per minute, at any rate).  Shouldn't these be (0,60), then?

It may well be that (0,60) is always sufficient, but the standard allows
for (0,61).  X3J11 received conflicting information about this.  We
settled on (0,61) as being a sufficiently large range to accommodate the
number of seconds no matter what the situation actually turned out to be.



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