Re: Conversion errors for datetime fields

* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [001228 22:01]:
> > SO, we need to allow it as well.  I suspect the C99 standard or
> > some other POSIX/SUS/etc standard changed.
>
> C99 *corrects* this error; it specifies 0-60 not 0-61 as the range
> of tm_sec.  (It also describes actual support for leap-second
> timekeeping, which the original C standard did not.)
>
> But this is all irrelevant, anyway, unless you want people to install
> atomic clocks before they can run Postgres.  We don't have support for
> leap-second timekeeping, and few if any of the platforms we run on
> do either.  IMHO, accepting :60 when we do not have the ability to do
> anything correct with it won't improve matters.
>
>             regards, tom lane
Ok.  I just wanted to mention what I had thought was an
*Authoritative* source.

Thanks for your research time.....

LER

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