From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@...>
Date: 2000-11-08T04:44:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6139] Re: More Date/Time inconsistencies

matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:

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

From FreeBSD's src/lib/libc/stdtime/localtime.c, from the call path such as
localtime() -> localsub() -> timesub():

        /*
        ** A positive leap second requires a special
        ** representation.  This uses "... ??:59:60" et seq.
        */
        tmp->tm_sec = (int) (rem % SECSPERMIN) + hit;

"hit" is the leap seconds, of course.  The documentation says:

           int tm_sec;     /* seconds (0 - 60) */

Hope this helps.

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