Bug#717739: debian-policy: policy examplifies minutes as (00-59) but seconds as (00-60)

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:32:38PM +0200, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> 
> In the changelog chapter of policy (4.4), it says
> 
> > mm is the two-digit minutes (00-59)
> > ss is the two-digit seconds (00-60)
> 
> - which looks a bit strange to me - shouldn't both these be 00-59?

60 is used for leap seconds, following UTC.

Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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