Seconds from 19xx to Date (and visa versa)

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <10030 at socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> diamond at csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond) writes:
(The dpANSI C standard had the field for seconds redefined to allow a
>value of 60 for exactly this reason.

In article <8788 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> It now ranges from 0 through 61.  You really don't want to know...


OK, I'll ask.

"Doug, why does a time_t range from 0 through 61?"

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