-------- In message <[email protected]>, Hal Murray writes:
>I think the problem is conflicting standards. POSIX doesn't agree with UTC. Not so much "doesn't agree" as "ignores". >Are there any examples of buggy standards with a huge installed base getting >fixed? Yes, plenty. Building codes. Electrical codes. Traffic codes. The deciding factor is always number of people killed and maimed. ... Or the rich loosing money, that always gets political action. -- 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] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
