Linux "date" command ignores leap-seconds?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:17:24PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> That being said, you should be able to figure out how many leap seconds have
> occurred based on a given UNIX timestamp.
> 
> Actually, there's a pretty simple table:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second>
> 
> Regrettably, it seems like some manual work to extract the data from
> there; it would
> be nice to have something like the TZ database for leap seconds.

Of course that would mean updating the tz database everytime it is
decided a leap second should be added.  And is it really timezone related
or does it belong somewhere else?

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Len Sorensen
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