On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:54:00 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > If there are no more leap seconds, POSIX doesn't have to specify > how to deal with them. > Isn't this a rather unrealistic position?
You can quote POSIX til you're blue in the face, but leap seconds are how UTC deals with the slowing of earth's rotation. And to complain about this seems about as sensible as complaining about leap days. Now, if POSIX can't deal with leap seconds, then it seems like you have a choice. You can stick to UTC because that's the standard that underlies civil time. Or you can stick with POSIX and your system clock can progressively gain time. It strikes me that POSIX purity here insists on a deviance from reality. And that doesn't strike me as particularly sane. -- David Benfell, LCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
