Re: os.date seconds: 0-61?

[Ross Bencina <rossb-lists@...>]

On 14/05/2013 12:21 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> The C99 standard says 0-60. I do not have access to the C89 standard,
> too.  However, [1] has literal copies of several parts of that standard
> (those related to the libraries), and it states that the range for
> tm_sec is [0, 61] (Section 7.12.1 from ISO 9899:1990).

I have a copy of the C89 standard here (in [1]). The following quote is 
from page 170. As I read it, footnote 137 is part of the standards text.

"""
struct tm

[...] The semantics of the members and their normal ranges are expressed 
in the comments.^137

 int tm_sec; /* seconds after the minute -- [0, 61] */

[...]

---
^137 The range [0,61] for tm_sec allows for as many as two leap seconds.
"""

HTH

Ross

[1] The Annotated ANSI C Standard, American National Standard for 
Programming Languages -- C. Annotated by Herbert Schildt. ANSI/ISO 
9899-1990. Osbourne McGraw-Hill. 1990.