Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com> writes:
> Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> Garrett D'Amore <gdamore@netbsd.org> writes:
>>   
>>> Modified Files:
>>> 	src/sys/kern: kern_todr.c
>>>
>>> Log Message:
>>> Allow for leap seconds.
>>>     
>>
>> I would have thought 61 was sufficient. Is 62 really possible?
>>
>> Perry
>>   
>
> I don't know if 62 is.  I know that 61 is possible.  Frankly, if it is
> 62, it doesn't hurt to handle it, as long as nothing else is weird.  (If
> its bad, then most likely other things will be bad.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second seems to indicate that 61
seconds is the max. A leap second is called whenever UT1 and UTC are
about to get more than .9 seconds apart.

Perry