In message <[email protected]>, Brooks Harris writes: >> But time_t has always been UTC, because it was meant to be UTC. > >Oh, I see what you're saying. Of course - UTC in the historical non-Leap >Second period existed, and they intended time_t to reflect it.
Nice try to twist things to your own viewpoint, but you are wrong. They meant UTC to be UTC. They had absolutely no opinion on leapseconds. Leapseconds, UT, UT1, UT2 or for that matter astronomers or their opinions about time, played absolutely no role in the decision making process. Bell Labs were a telco-sidekick and the telco business used UTC to isolate local timezones and DST issues to a presentation issue. Do I need to remind you that it was telcos caused UTC to be CCITT business in the first place ? Appearantly the only computing person outside timelabs who cared about leapseconds prior to 1985 was Dave Mills. -- 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
