Re: date -d and the leapsecond

[Paul Eggert]

"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden> writes:

> Are you sure that whatever change made date stop taking
> the 60 only stopped it on hosts that don't support leap second?

I did verify that it worked on my host, when I configured it for leap
seconds (which I normally don't do):

   521-penguin $ date -d '2005-12-31 15:59:60'
   Sat Dec 31 15:59:60 PST 2005
   522-penguin $ date -d '2005-12-31 15:59:61'
   date: invalid date `2005-12-31 15:59:61'
   523-penguin $ date -d '2004-12-31 15:59:60'
   date: invalid date `2004-12-31 15:59:60'

No doubt there are still bugs in the area, as the code doesn't get
exercised much, but the intent is that it should work.