Re: roundoff problem in time datatype - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: roundoff problem in time datatype
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Msg-id 87k6h3hnv6.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: roundoff problem in time datatype  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> That's an urban legend.  There never have been, and never will be, two
> leap seconds instituted in the same minute.  We really should reject
> anything larger than '23:59:60'.

I don't understand. The last second of a normal minute goes from 59.0 to
59.999 (etc) before the next minute begins. So surely the last second of a
minute containing a leap second goes from 60.0 to 60.999?

-- 
greg



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