NB> This is also mentioned in the bibliography later on in the document, albeit NB> maybe not the same link I posted above. That seems to include 60 and has a NB> couple RFC's to back it up.
WV>> The 'second' can be "60" when there is a leap second inserted into WV>> UTC. It would be very cool if anyone ever accomplished to write a WV>> message with that date/time stamp! (Without cheating of course! ;))
NB>>> I'm no programmer, but maybe that's exactly what it's defined NB>>> for, in the very rare case that it would need to be used?
WV>> For the 'second' it is. But I've never heard of a leap 'minute'. And WV>> google doesn't know about it either...
NB> Apparantly the link I provided as well as the bibliography in the NB> proposal know about it, though. *shrug*
I think the ABNF format is overly complex to specify such simple things. I don't see any RFC's mentioned in the bibliography only other ftsc documents. And FTS-0001 does it in a simple clear way:
