In message <[email protected]>, "Eric R. Smith" writes:
>> As you are no doubt aware, the POSIX time_t does not do that. > >Doesn't it? If POSIX time_t were in fact a count of SI seconds since the >epoch then the nature of the "leap second problem" would be quite >different. time_t uses at least the concept of "day". No, in fact it doesn't, it just counts seconds, one after the other. The reason why leapseconds is a problem is that people assume that it *also* counts minutes, hours and days also. -- 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
