Joseph Gwinn wrote: >No. If your poke around into how time is used, you will discover that >what is stored in the cound of seconds since the Epoch. Broken-down >time is used only when there is a human to be humored.
Sure, scalar time_t values are used underneath, and I didn't say otherwise. That's what time_t is for. The kernel even increments the time_t clock, most of the time, as if it's a linear count of seconds, which is how it behaves on the small scale outside the immediate vicinity of leap seconds. But a kernel that knows about leap seconds then introduces a discontinuity in the scalar value, somewhere near each leap, to maintain the scalar<->UTC relationship. >POSIX time is defined without reference to NTP, Indeed. The two definitions are separate, but match in most of their design features. -zefram _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
