On Jan 18, 2014, at 6:31 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote:

> On 18/01/14 11:56, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <[email protected]>, Magnus Danielson writes:
>> 
>>> If you where right about not basing it on the orbital debris, then we
>>> should not attempt to be using concepts like seconds, minutes, hours,
>>> days, weeks, months, years [...]
>> 
>> As you are no doubt aware, the POSIX time_t does not do that.
> 
> The POSIX time_t still tries to encode it, using some of the rules that makes 
> of UTC, including SI-seconds. However, the argument was not about POSIX 
> time_t, but about what "Universal" in UTC actually means.

POSIX time_t is explicitly not UTC.

Warner

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