In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:

>So, if the ITU voted in a time scale with 86413 SI-seconds per day
>or a two-ticks-forward-one-tock-back timekeeping scheme or a
>Doctor-Who-on-psychodelics or [...]

They did that around 40 years ago ;-)

>POSIX therefore doesn't seem to place any actual requirements on
>the whole timekeeping shtick does it?

POSIX and Open Group standards are appearantly in "read-only" mode,
for reasons of politics I have not been able to get to the bottom of.

The most likely standard group to sort out trouble, should the
Doctor-Who-on-psycodelics timescale continue, is a very good
question.  My bet: it will be a cabal of open source people.

Poul-Henning


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