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Re: drums2?

Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> Mon, 16 September 2002 19:08 UTC

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Keith Moore wrote:
>>I've seen things like -0801 (where upon inquiry, the responsible
>>party said it was intended to account for a leap second -- how
>> 1 second was magnified into 1 minute is baffling).
> 
> 
> even more baffling is the leap second affecting the time zone _offset_.
> 
> (actually I am hard pressed to see how anyone could make that kind of
> coding mistake, much less come  up with such a lame justification)

I believe it was a case of system [mis-]configuration (and not
limited to a single system, BTW) rather than coding per se.
Here's an actual header:

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