Re: 24:00 versus 00:00

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_BSDIMP.COM>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:32:27 -0700 (MST)

From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn_at_CL.CAM.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: 24:00 versus 00:00
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:53:22 +0000

> Steve Allen wrote on 2006-02-16 19:25 UTC:
> > > No reply from an NTP server shall ever represent any point in time
> > > between 23:59:60 and 24:00:00 of a UTC day.
> >
> > Minor point, I think it has to read more like this
> >
> > between 23:59:60 of a UTC day that ends with a positive leap
> > second and 00:00:00 of the subsequent UTC day.
>
> I disagree.
>
> With the 24-h notation, it is a very useful and well-established

But that's not what UTC defines. It doesn't matter what the well
established traditions are.

Warner
Received on Thu Feb 16 2006 - 13:35:19 PST