Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:40:58 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
Cc: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>,
       Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>, david@lang.hm,
       Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net>,
       Ben Goodger <goodgerster@gmail.com>, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <jeff@kosowsky.org>,
       MentalMooMan <slashdot@jameshallam.info>,
       Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>, burdell@iruntheinter.net
Subject: Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years
 2008-2009
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>        UTC  equivalent  to  conversion  on  the naive basis that leap seconds are ignored and all
>        years divisible by 4 are leap years.  This value is not the same as the actual  number  of
>        seconds between the time and the Epoch, because of leap seconds and because clocks are not
>        required to be synchronized to a standard reference.

I'm not sure what you are quoting from but it is out of date on the
subject of leap years.

The rest looks right.
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