--- newctime.3 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/newctime.3 b/newctime.3 index ece8507..61cd9e4 100644 --- a/newctime.3 +++ b/newctime.3 @@ -62,9 +62,9 @@ The time stamp represents the time in seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The POSIX standard says that time stamps must be nonnegative -must ignore leap seconds. +and must ignore leap seconds. Many implementations extend POSIX by allowing negative time stamps, -and can therefore represent time stamps that that predate the +and can therefore represent time stamps that predate the introduction of UTC and are some other flavor of Universal Time (UT). Some implementations support leap seconds, in contradiction to POSIX. .PP -- 1.8.1.2