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Leap Second Handling
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01/07/2012 04:03:57
 
 
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01/07/2012 03:03:57
Al Doman (Online)
M3 Enterprises Inc.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows Server 2003
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Thread ID:
01547367
Message ID:
01547371
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If a second is being added then shouldn't gt + 1 yield 01/07/2012 00:00:01 ?

Update: Not enough coffee.... So gt+1 should still be 30/06/02012 23:59:59 ?

>A leap second is being added at midnight tonight, June 30 2012. VFP (and probably most of the world's software) doesn't handle it properly:
>
>gt = {^2012-06-30 23:59:59}
>?gt + 1 && returns 2012-07-01 00:00:00
>* It should return 2012-06-30 23:59:60
>
>Just a little something (i.e. huge can of worms) to be aware of if you need second-accurate time calculations that span the leap second.
>
>Some systems are weirdly affected and may crash. For instance, the last leap second caused the SlashDot web site to crash: http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/06/30/2123248/the-leap-second-is-here-are-your-systems-ready
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