RE: Double leap seconds

It is intended to cover a fractional second i.e. a maximum of
60.999999...

All the best, Ashok 
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Clark [mailto:jjc@jclark.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:12 AM
To: XML Schema Comments
Subject: Double leap seconds

Section D.1 says "A value of 60 or more is allowed only in the case of
leap
seconds". Is the "or more" just intended to cover a fractional second or
is
it intended to allow values >= 61?  The specs for Java and ISO C allow a
value of 61, but as far as I can see the official spec for UTC

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/ITU-R-TF.460-4.pdf

only allows a single leap second.

James

Received on Thursday, 25 April 2002 12:30:35 UTC