-------- In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes: >On Fri 2016-12-30T20:20:57 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: >> >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". > >In the 1988 standard it is clear that they chose not to add the >century leap-year rule. They preferred simplicity for now rather than >correctness over an interval longer than time_t could then encode.
The story I heard was that the issue of copyright/license to the UNIX man-pages were still not fully resolved. -- 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
