Imported from previous forum
[ original email was from Klitos Kyriacou - klitos.kyriacou@reuters.com ]
According to the FIX 4.2 specification of the data type UTCTimestamp (page 7), valid values for seconds are 0-59.
UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) differs from plain UT (Universal Time) mainly in having leap seconds (see http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leapsec.html). Since the FIX document specifically mentions UTC, rather than UT or GMT, shouldn’t it support a range of 0-60 for the seconds field (for those times when a minute has 61 seconds)?
Rgds
Klitos