June 2, 1988
7:51 a.m.
* The range of seconds has been changed from "[0-59]" to "[0-60]" throughout, to allow for leap seconds. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on what you think POSIX wants.
When the first leap seconds were added, which I believe were in 1973, there were two inserted at the same time. Thus a single legal value has had the seconds denoted as "61". From memory, these two leap seconds were: 1973 June 30 23:59:60 1973 June 30 23:59:61 All other leap seconds, as I recall, have been added singly so other than the single second noted above "[0-60]" would be sufficient. However if we are to do a complete job, let's handle this "61" too. Ron Tolley