On 22 July 2016 at 21:49, Steve Summit <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stephen Colebourne:
>> My hope when I defined the Java time-scale was that eventually the
>> OS would provide it, or something very similar.
>
> Indeed.  I've been exploring a reasonably straightforward
> scheme to have the OS kernel keep true UTC internally, but
> report smeared Posix time_t by default, but with new way(s)
> to report and use true UTC (that is, including an unambiguous
> representation of 23:59:60Z) for those few applications that
> care.  This is essentially the scheme that Markus Kuhn described
> at https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/posix-clocks.html almost 20
> years ago.

Sounds ideal to me.

Stephen
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