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RE: Generalized Time/UTC Time need leap seconds
Kathy Dally wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> I checked ISO 8601, and it does support leap second.
Thanks Kathy. I shall change the ABNF for GeneralizedTime
to allow "60" seconds.
Regards,
Steven
>
> Thanks,
> Kathy
>
>
> Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> >
> > 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