Re: Document Action: 'BinaryTime: An alternate format for representing date and time in ASN.1' to Experimental RFC

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Graham Klyne writes:
>> The integer value is the number of seconds after midnight UTC,
>> January 1, 1970.
>> 
>> NEW:
>> 
>> The integer value is the number of seconds, ignoring leap seconds,
>> after midnight UTC, January 1, 1970.

> This slipped under my radar until this announcement.

> Has there been detailed discussion of leap second issues?  What
> exactly does the revised text "ignoring leap seconds" actually mean
> (I think I can guess, but I also think there's some room for
> misinterpretation here)?

Yes.  Maybe "excluding leap seconds" would have been clearer.
-- 
Simon.


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