As one of the main people who worked on time related aspects of the
IEEE P1003.1 POSIX standard, I'd like to make a few comments about how
it came to be the way it is now.
First I'd like to tell you about the early consensus on time; before
any of the POSIX time specs were written. I'm not saying
> Thanks for giving us this history.
You are most welcome.
The POSIX time dance was an interesting lesson is damage mitigation
vs. desire to do something better than existing common practice.
During the process some of the active POSIX P1003.1 members ended up
learning a lot more than they expec
> But "names for points in time" can have a meaningful relationship
> to the flow of time in the physical universe without necessarily
> having anything to do with spatial-orientation-of-earth.
Yes, one can construct meaning out of non-spatial-orientation-of-earth
related "names for points in time
> The second reality is that many existing applications depend on calculations
> that assume that time_t has exactly 86400 seconds per year. (Note that it
> does NOT follow from this that there are 86400 POSIX seconds in any given
> calendar year. ...
Obviously you mean "per day".
> UTC+TZ is the
