From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-11-03T23:40:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6033] Re: Ref.:  Re: Time.local bug?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6028] Ref.:  Re: Time.local bug?"
    on 00/11/03, David Suarez de Lis <excalibor@demasiado.com> writes:

|Also, ISO 8601,  allows hour '24' as a equivalent to  '00' and I have
|read  somewhere that  the may  be  a second  '61' some  times, but  I
|haven't found that in any official document, so there's nothing solid
|in that...

A second 61 means subsequent leap second, which is something like
urban legend.  So Ruby does not allow 61st second in the minute.
Thanks to Tadayoshi Funaba who teaches us a lot about time and
calendar.

|> Sorry...
|
|Mmmm... Are you guilty for that? If not, I don't think you should
|feel sorry, just worried like the rest of us ;-)

I AM guilty if there's something wrong ;-)

							matz.