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.

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