In message <p06240801ca9937bef3c3@[192.168.1.101]>, Joe Gwinn writes: >At 5:20 PM +0000 9/16/11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>Actually, I don't think it is, because it's not UTC for a lot >>more time that the leap-second. POSIX time is UTC execept >>for during leap-seconds. > >POSIX time as defined in the standard is *not* UTC. No, but the second they use is "nominally equal to an International System (SI) second in duration." so any rubber-second implementation which has rubber seconds stretching beyond the actual leap-second is not POSIX/ISO-C compliant. -- 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
