Ken Pizzini wrote on 2003-01-30 06:06 UTC: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:04:23PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote: > > Who really needs to maintain a full list of leap seconds and for what > > application exactly? > > If a file storage system stores timestamps as "SI seconds since > some epoch",
As I noted earlier, de facto and "de jure" (meaning POSIX.1:1996, section 2.2.2.113), any real world Unix file system (and that's where the term "seconds since the epoch" comes from in this context) uses a timestamp that counts "non-leap seconds since the epoch". http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/posix-2-2-2-113.pdf Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__
