Re: 2008 is 1s longer than normal.
| From: | Richard Quadling | Date: | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:08:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: 2008 is 1s longer than normal. | ||
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2008/12/18 Steph Fox <steph@php.net>:
> Hi Richard,
>
>> In looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second,
>> there have
>> been quite a few leap seconds - 34 since Jan 1st 1972.
>
> I make it 23, according to the info on that page...
>
>> So, if PHP isn't making any changes does this mean PHP time is 34
>> seconds behind UTC?
>
> No.
>
> This would be a red herring anyway Richard, the Olson tz database used by
> PHP is used by several other projects too - including the GNU C library.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoneinfo
>
> - Steph
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You are missing the 10 that were initially done between TAI and UTC
and the 23 subsequent ones with one more at the end of the year = 34.
So 33 seconds then.
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