Re: time value '24:00:00'

On Thursday 02 November 2006 00:59, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Uwe C. Schroeder wrote:
> >> Ah, times and dates are wonderful things though. For example, '23:59:60'
> >> is a valid time (and not equal to 24:00:00 or 00:00:00) every so often.
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
> >
> > Yeah, but isn't the third part milliseconds? Doesn't "milli" imply 1000
> > and not 60. I may be totally off here though - well, it's getting late
>
> Nope - hh:mm:ss.milli
> And it's early in London, so it *must* be late in Western U.S.A. - see
> you later :-)

You're right of course. Seconds! Who would have thought about that :-)
It's past 1am, so I guess I should go hit the mattress ...

PS: and I heard it's darn cold over there too ....

Uwe

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