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Re: The documentation of date mark that seconds can be from 0->60
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: The documentation of date mark that seconds can be from 0->60 |
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Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:23:01 +0200 |
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"Dotan Barak" <address@hidden> writes:
> I noticed that the documentation of the utility "date" say that the
> seconds (%S) can be from 0 to 60.
> When i tried it i noticed that 59 is the maximum value which is being printed.
$ TZ=right/UTC date -d '2005-12-31 23:59:60'
Sat Dec 31 23:59:60 UTC 2005
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second>
Andreas.
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