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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Schaefer, Kevin L" <klschaefer <at> mckendree.edu>

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 01:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: "Schaefer, Kevin L" <klschaefer <at> mckendree.edu>
Cc: 8142 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8142: Bug Submission
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:40:06 -0700

tags 8142 + notabug
thanks

Schaefer, Kevin L wrote:
> I located a bug in the help page for the date command, which can be
> accessed by typing "date --help". It says that the range for second
> is (00..60), when it should probably be (00..59).

Thank you for your report.  However this is not a bug.  The range
really is 0 through 60.  Periodically a leap second is needed to be
inserted and when that happens the seconds really are 60.  Here is a
reference for leap seconds.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

Bob
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