-------- In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes:
>POSIX does not want to know geophysics, nor astrometry, nor politics. >POSIX does not care what is meant by "day". >POSIX wants someone else to decide what "day" means, and for all those >other details to be handled outside the kernel in the libraries and >applications. POSIX is not just a kernel API, it *also* defines the functions for deciding what "day" means and all that. -- 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
