-------- In message <[email protected]>, Joseph Gwinn writes:
>It may prove useful to know why the POSIX Working Group (WG) excluded >leap seconds, in their own words. POSIX didn't "exclude leap seconds", they chose not to "add leap seconds". I have personally asked Dennis Richie about this detail and his answer was: "We set the clock when the system booted, from our wrist-watch, in many cases watches without a second-hand." -- 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
