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Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: Watch these spaces
: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h2272:
: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-2272
: for according to Jonathan Hardis as soon as they catch up on their
: paperwork they'll note that the US has joined the UTC club.
:
: Get ready to party. By strict interpretation of the legal time
: scale of the US, the count of seconds elapsed here currently agrees
: with the time_t on a POSIX system with a correctly set clock. Both
: have been counting mean solar seconds since 1970.
:
: The next time that Daniel Gambis makes the announcement we can prepare
: to celebrate the first legally-occurring leap second in US history,
: and at the same time watch the POSIX clock diverge from the legal clock.
What makes you think that POSIX clock will diverge from the legal
clock?
Warner
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