Peter Ekberg wrote: > If you thought about all that, maybe you also thought about leap seconds? > Isn't it valid to have 60 in the seconds field when a leap second is added?
Yes, this should be valid. But maketime() does not provide portable support for it, because it relies on gmtime/localtime of the platform's libc. On Cygwin, maketime() does not accept 2005-12-31 23:59:60 UTC as a valid time. Cheers Christian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/