On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 00:30:16 -0400, Ed Finnell wrote: >On the red Hat page Linus Torvil tries to explain that much of the >application software was designed and built in an ERA(1999-2005) that had no >leap >seconds. 'It's always something' R. Rosanadan > ??? The first (two?) leap seconds were in 1972. Diachronicity provides no excuse.
>In a message dated 7/1/2015 10:52:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time, >hal9001 writes: > >A better solution would be to have the program read a record with the >date of the next leap second (once it is announced - there is >adequate warning to update the record. ... > It's even easier than that. On a Linux system, play with the entries in /usr/share/zoneinfo/right and localtime(). Cygwin similar with different pathname. The hard part is that POSIX intrudes. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
