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Re: Generalized Time/UTC Time need leap seconds
Hi All!
I checked ISO 8601, and it does support leap second.
Thanks,
Kathy
Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>
> Steven Legg writes:
>
> >>> [Syntaxes] 4.3.13 (Generalized Time) says:
> >>>
> >>> second = %x30-36 %x30-39 ; "00" to "59"
> >>>
> >>> That should be "00" to "60", since Coordinated Universal Time has
> >>> leap seconds. See e.g. <http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/systime.html>.
> > (...)
> > The UTCTime type in X.680 doesn't allow for leap seconds (60 seconds
> > is an illegal value). I still have to check whether GeneralizedTime
> > allows it.
>
> X.680 (07/2002) in
> <http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/languages/> defers to
> ISO 8601, which does allow leap seconds according to
> <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html>. I don't have the
> actual ISO 8601 document.
>
> --
> Hallvard