Hello mark,

On Sun Jan 29 2017 16:54:42, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 ml>>> what happened to the leap second that was talked about?

 NB>> I was told to scrap anything ABNF had to say about the matter
 NB>> when it came to hours, minutes,  and seconds - and use FTS-0001
 NB>> instead.

 ml> you don't have to do everything everyone tells you...

In order to get anywhere with this proposal, it seems as though I do, since
they didn't agree with what was currently there.

 NB>> There is nothing in FTS-0001 that mentions a leap second, so
 NB>> we're left with the above.

 ml> that just goes to show you that randy bush didn't think of everything
 ml> and that no one else caught it either... in this case, the fact
 ml> remains that it could happen that a leap second is written and it
 ml> needs to be allowed for in the documentation before someone's tossers
 ml> start crashing because they were also shortsighted about leap
 ml> things...

Agreed completely!

Regards,
Nick

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