In message <p06240805ca9bf8bc07d3@[192.168.1.101]>, Joe Gwinn writes:
>I doubt that the push to drop leap seconds has anything to do with >POSIX - there are far larger forces at play. Yes, (Armed) forces which run a lot of POSIX systems... We can discuss who to blame, but POSIX would have been a damn good time to fix leap-seconds. It didn't get fixed in POSIX because UNIX commercial interests at the time were scared shitless by the amount of breakage it would cause. And nobody has bothered to update UNIX/POSIX/OpenGroup texts since then, rendering them increasingly archaic and out-dated for modern needs, so leap-seconds are still not fixed. The initial proposal to drop Leap Seconds came out of Pentagon and was fast-tracked through the US Government. We have never been told the where, who, how and why of that. -- 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
