Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:37:24 +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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> "man 2 time" on Debian Lenny. The treatment of leap years looks ridiculous, but
> within the context of a 32-bit time_t, all divisible-by-4 years between 1901 and
> 2038 are leap years. It's a bit of a problem for 64-bit time_t though.

Then Debian documentation needs fixing. POSIX fixed their definition some
years ago.
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