[time] Leap seconds?

[Chuck Swiger]

Hi, Scott--

On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Scott Baker wrote:
> Is that something that's part of the timezone file? Say I've got a  
> perl
> script, or PHP script converting unixtime to human readable time,  
> will they
> have to be updated after a leap second is introduced? Or does some  
> system
> library handle those conversions?

See:

http://www.cis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~mills/leap-seconds.3331497600
http://www.iers.org/MainDisp.csl?pid=36-25787&prodid=16
http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/bulc/TimeSteps.history

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck