ruby-changes:24456
From: drbrain <ko1@a...>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:24:02 +0900 (JST)
Subject: [ruby-changes:24456] drbrain:r36507 (trunk): * time.c (time_sec): Updated description of leap seconds for accuracy.
drbrain 2012-07-24 07:23:41 +0900 (Tue, 24 Jul 2012) New Revision: 36507 http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=36507 Log: * time.c (time_sec): Updated description of leap seconds for accuracy. Based on patch by Marcus Stollsteimer. [Bug #6749] Modified files: trunk/ChangeLog trunk/time.c Index: time.c =================================================================== --- time.c (revision 36506) +++ time.c (revision 36507) @@ -3883,10 +3883,12 @@ * call-seq: * time.sec -> fixnum * - * Returns the second of the minute (0..60)<em>[Yes, seconds really can - * range from zero to 60. This allows the system to inject leap seconds - * every now and then to correct for the fact that years are not really - * a convenient number of hours long.]</em> for <i>time</i>. + * Returns the second of the minute (0..60) for <i>time</i>. + * <em>[Yes, seconds really can range from zero to 60. This allows the + * system to inject leap seconds every now and then to correct for the + * fact that UTC is based on solar time so days are not exactly 86400 + * seconds or 24 hours long. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second + * for further details.]</em> * * t = Time.now #=> 2007-11-19 08:25:02 -0600 * t.sec #=> 2 Index: ChangeLog =================================================================== --- ChangeLog (revision 36506) +++ ChangeLog (revision 36507) @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Tue Jul 24 07:22:58 2012 Eric Hodel <drbrain@s...> + + * time.c (time_sec): Updated description of leap seconds for accuracy. + Based on patch by Marcus Stollsteimer. [Bug #6749] + Tue Jul 24 07:03:11 2012 Eric Hodel <drbrain@s...> * string.c (rb_str_sub): Fixed wording of documentation to match the -- ML: ruby-changes@q... Info: http://www.atdot.net/~ko1/quickml/