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date doesn't accept 61-sec. minutes
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According to The International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) we have
"Leap Seconds" included in our UTC time.
Please refer http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat .
~ snip ~
A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2012.
The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:
2012 June 30, 23h 59m 59s
2012 June 30, 23h 59m 60s
2012 July 1, 0h 0m 0s
~snap~
The command 'date' doesn't calculate it.
Test:
$ date +%s -d "2012-06-30 23:59:60"
date: invalid date `2012-06-30 23:59:60'
Tested version:
date (GNU coreutils) 8.5
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by David MacKenzie.
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Juergen 'sysdef' Heine, gnu-date <at> sysdef.de
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On 07/05/2012 01:05 PM, Juergen Heine wrote:
> If i'm correct, can we add this information to the manual for
> people who don't understand the simple line "leap seconds are
> getting ignored"?
Sure, I added the following and am marking this as done.
From bfda96e0ac5552bb1784f5e1dc311918ce077d50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 16:11:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] doc: document leap seconds better
* doc/coreutils.texi (touch invocation, Time conversion specifiers)
(Options for date, Examples of date): Index "leap seconds" and
improve their documentation a bit.
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 3c7f4e5..751a920 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -10493,13 +10493,15 @@ If @var{file} is a symbolic link, the reference timestamp is taken
from the target of the symlink, unless @option{-h} was also in effect.
@item -t [[@var{cc}]@var{yy}]@var{mmddhhmm}[.@var{ss}]
+@cindex leap seconds
Use the argument (optional four-digit or two-digit years, months,
days, hours, minutes, optional seconds) instead of the current time.
If the year is specified with only two digits, then @var{cc}
is 20 for years in the range 0 @dots{} 68, and 19 for years in
69 @dots{} 99. If no digits of the year are specified,
the argument is interpreted as a date in the current year.
-Note that @var{ss} may be @samp{60}, to accommodate leap seconds.
+On the atypical systems that support leap seconds, @var{ss} may be
+@samp{60}.
@end table
@@ -14243,11 +14245,13 @@ locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., @samp{11:11:04 PM})
@cindex epoch, seconds since
@cindex seconds since the epoch
@cindex beginning of time
+@cindex leap seconds
seconds since the epoch, i.e., since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC@.
Leap seconds are not counted unless leap second support is available.
@xref{%s-examples}, for examples.
This is a @acronym{GNU} extension.
@item %S
+@cindex leap seconds
second (@samp{00}@dots{}@samp{60}).
This may be @samp{60} if leap seconds are supported.
@item %T
@@ -14650,12 +14654,15 @@ See also @ref{Setting the time}.
@cindex UTC
@cindex Greenwich Mean Time
@cindex GMT
+@cindex leap seconds
@vindex TZ
Use Coordinated Universal Time (@acronym{UTC}) by operating as if the
@env{TZ} environment variable were set to the string @samp{UTC0}.
Coordinated
Universal Time is often called ``Greenwich Mean Time'' (@sc{gmt}) for
historical reasons.
+Typically, systems ignore leap seconds and thus implement an
+approximation to UTC rather than true UTC.
@end table
@@ -14806,6 +14813,36 @@ date -u -d '1970-01-01 946684800 seconds' +"%Y-%m-%d %T %z"
2000-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
@end smallexample
+@item
+@cindex leap seconds
+Typically the seconds count omits leap seconds, but some systems are
+exceptions. Because leap seconds are not predictable, the mapping
+between the seconds count and a future timestamp is not reliable on
+the atypical systems that include leap seconds in their counts.
+
+Here is how the two kinds of systems handle the leap second at
+2012-06-30 23:59:60 UTC:
+
+@example
+# Typical systems ignore leap seconds:
+date --date='2012-06-30 23:59:59 +0000' +%s
+1341100799
+date --date='2012-06-30 23:59:60 +0000' +%s
+date: invalid date '2012-06-30 23:59:60 +0000'
+date --date='2012-07-01 00:00:00 +0000' +%s
+1341100800
+@end example
+
+@example
+# Atypical systems count leap seconds:
+date --date='2012-06-30 23:59:59 +0000' +%s
+1341100823
+date --date='2012-06-30 23:59:60 +0000' +%s
+1341100824
+date --date='2012-07-01 00:00:00 +0000' +%s
+1341100825
+@end example
+
@end itemize
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1.7.6.5
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