In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Clive D.W. Feather" writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp said:
>> So the standards crew, POSIX, LSB or whoever would have to come up
>> with a new data type for holding timestamps,
>
>We already have one: struct tm.
Doesn't work.
Struct tm is defined such that if you do
tm.tm_sec += 75
the "right" thing will happen.
That is why, as Warner has documented that the leapsecond has a time_t
one less than what you get out of timegm(23:59:60), the "60" second
count is normalized to 00:00:00.
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