On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:32:53PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:22:56 -0500 (EST)
>
> Mark Delany writes:
> > I walk around http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/world.html
> > might be instructive.
>
> Instructive, yes, but it says nothing about TAI. TAI is simply a
> counting of seconds, without UTC being taken into account. TAI + leap
> seconds == UTC. Unix machines claim to run on UTC but really operate
> on TAI.
>
> This is one of those statement which punches my personal pedant
> button.
>
> I believe that machines which follow POSIX run on a mixture.
I wouldn't want to run any 100% POSIX-compliant OS.
Why? POSIX says 2000 is not a leap year :)
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
