From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-11-08T01:41:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6130] Re: More Date/Time inconsistencies

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6121] More Date/Time inconsistencies"
    on 00/11/07, David Suarez de Lis <excalibor@demasiado.com> writes:

|       The members of the tm structure are:
|
|       tm_sec The number of seconds after the minute, normally in
|              the range 0 to 59, but can be up to 61 to allow for
|              leap seconds.
|[...]
|
|So you see, this is not yet solved... (I knew I have read the #61 sec thing somewhere...)

This is exactly what I meant by urban legend.  You find description
about 61st second everywhere, but no solid evidence of its existence.

							matz.