| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: roundoff problem in time datatype |
| Date: | 2005-09-26 15:04:13 |
| Message-ID: | 87k6h3hnv6.fsf@stark.xeocode.com |
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> That's an urban legend. There never have been, and never will be, two
> leap seconds instituted in the same minute. We really should reject
> anything larger than '23:59:60'.
I don't understand. The last second of a normal minute goes from 59.0 to
59.999 (etc) before the next minute begins. So surely the last second of a
minute containing a leap second goes from 60.0 to 60.999?
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greg
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