[2258] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: leap seconds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri Feb 21 00:11:24 1997
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
Date: 21 Feb 1997 00:10:34 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o"'s message of Thu, 20 Feb 1997 22:38:15 -0500
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Well, the important thing is that a time which is asn1_decoded, and then
> asn1_encoded, is the same as it originally started.
Are you *sure*?
If the string->number->string conversion has to yield the original
value, and if the input string can come from the net, and if any
implementation is permitted to send "...235960", then *every*
implementation ought to understand and generate that same string!
If it's the other way around -- number->string->number within an
implementation must be an identity -- that's not nearly as bad.
