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Re: Generalized Time/UTC Time need leap seconds
- To: steven.legg@adacel.com.au
- Subject: Re: Generalized Time/UTC Time need leap seconds
- From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:47:11 +0200
- Cc: ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org
- In-reply-to: <004a01c2ba94$9d780590$a518200a@osmium.mtwav.adacel.com.au>
- References: <HBF.20030110genh@bombur.uio.no> <004a01c2ba94$9d780590$a518200a@osmium.mtwav.adacel.com.au>
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.
X.680 (07/2002) in
<http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/languages/> defers to
ISO 8601, which does allow leap seconds according to
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html>. I don't have the
actual ISO 8601 document.
--
Hallvard