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 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
