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 _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
