What is a leap second

[Medland, Bill]

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> [mailto:wine-devel-admin at winehq.com]On
> Behalf Of György 'Nog' Jeney
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:46 AM
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> Subject: What is a leap second
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> While I was looking through dlls/ntdll/time.c I came across 
> the following
> two comments: "FIXME: Compute the number of leap second 
> corrections here"
> and "FIXME: get the GMT offset here" What do these this mean?
> 
> nog.
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(Trying to avoid repeating everyone else)

The best source I know for information on leap seconds is
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leapsec.html
That includes a link to the list of when the leap seconds have been.

I was also looking at "time" over the past couple of days, from the
"GetDateFormat" side of things (files/dos_fs.c).  I note that (Win98)
SystemTimeToFileTime etc do not include any leap seconds (i.e. file time
assumes no leap seconds).

Bill