On Tue, 21 May 2013 10:06:12 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote:

>On Tue, 21 May 2013 08:24:41 -0400, Charles Mills wrote:
>>
>>Also, thanks for your STCK(E) converter. 
>>http://www.longpelaexpertise.com.au/toolsTOD.php Have used that from time to 
>>time.
>>
> The STCK converter is not handling leap seconds. If you give it STCK values 
> from various years listed in chapter 4 of Principles of Operation, the 
> returned time for many of them is off by approximately (not exactly) the 
> number of leap seconds that were not taken into account.
> 
Isn't that for compatibility with the STCKCONV macro?

>Also, if you give it the value 7d91048bca000000 for 1/1/1970 (not in the 
>manual) it says it is before Jan 1 1970. That's not a leap seconds problem, 
>but it is incorrect.
> 
Sounds like a POSIX limitation.

-- gil

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