Re: [LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

2014-01-11 Thread Joseph Gwinn
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:39:32 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: On Jan 11, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Joseph Gwinn wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:35:25 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: On Jan 10, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Skip Newhall wrote: 'Proscribe’ and 'prescribe' are distinct words: 'Proscribe' means to

Re: [LEAPSECS] Standards of time zones -Brooks Harris

2014-01-11 Thread Brooks Harris
On 2014-01-09 10:28 PM, Steve Allen wrote: On Thu 2014-01-09T01:56:03 -0800, Brooks Harris hath writ: In 2011 you posted to the list a link to the 2011 ITU-R CACE issued Circular 539 http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2011-June/003058.html Whats the current status of that? Still on

Re: [LEAPSECS] Non-POSIX UNIX time

2014-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 140849.aa05...@ivan.harhan.org, Michael Spacefalcon writes: With all the discussion about POSIX time again, I present for contrast how time_t is defined on Non-POSIX UNIX systems. Here is the man page: ... from Michaels Private Unix. Don't feed the troll. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: [LEAPSECS] Standards of time zones -Brooks Harris

2014-01-11 Thread Tom Van Baak
That's disconcerting. Brooks, Nice that the list has come back to life. Looking back on your original question about UTC documentation, you never mentioned what your actual application is. I think it would be helpful if you could state what your problem or your goal is. There are a lot of

Re: [LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

2014-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 52d20beb.60...@edlmax.com, Brooks Harris writes: Yes, in my opinion its unfortunate they chose to use the term UTC in that context. They chose UTC because they meant UTC. I have this directly from multiple persons who were involved back then, including Dennis Ritchie who gave me the

Re: [LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

2014-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20140112064503.gb23...@ucolick.org, Steve Allen writes: How they handle the leap second issue will assert whether humanity has any intent of keeping the meaning of the word day to be based on the rotation of the earth. No, it will decide who gets to decide when day is: The local and