On Sep 16, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't that make adjtime() non-conforming?

Warner

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