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RE: Generalized Time/UTC Time need leap seconds



Steven Legg writes:
>>> [Syntaxes] 4.3.13 (Generalized Time) says:
>>> 
>>>       second  = %x30-36 %x30-39                        ; "00" to "59"
>>> 
>>> That should be "00" to "60", since Coordinated Universal Time has
>>> leap seconds.  See e.g. <http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/systime.html>.
> (...)
> The UTCTime type in X.680 doesn't allow for leap seconds (60 seconds
> is an illegal value). I still have to check whether GeneralizedTime
> allows it.

Can you send a bug report for that, and maybe for Generalized Time, to
X.680?  I don't have X.680, so I don't know where to send the report.

-- 
Hallvard