On Jan 13, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Tony Finch wrote: > Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So seeing "GMT" in early Unix documents doesn't necessarily mean what >> you think it means, especially given the first hand accounts of >> participants on this list who specifically asked the people that >> originally wrote it what the intention behind the words was. POSIX >> changed the name to get the intention right, then "simplified" the >> actual rules to make ti "easier" to implement for the "vast majority" of >> users. > > I thought they just specified what the existing code did, with the aim of > making the rules more precise, not simpler.
The rules I was referring to was 'how to do UTC' not the code and algorithms in UNIX that were being codified. Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
