WWS vs. The Naval Observatory Clock
Clarence Dold
dold at mitisft.Convergent.COM
Mon Jan 7 14:25:34 AEST 1991
in article <1991Jan4.205944.23322 at mdivax1.uucp>, says:
> The second was added at Midnight UTC, Universal Coordinated Time.
> So none of the North America "Happy New Years" coincided with the
> extra second.
So what happens to the tm struct verses seconds since epoch?
If my vague recollection serves correctly, we've added 5-6 seconds.
mktime() programs should be off by about 5-6 seconds from the date/time
that is correct, as the calculation would slip the leap-seconds.
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