Title: RE: [LEAPSECS] making leap hours workable
I believe you would get very strong pushback from the POSIX world if you tried to make the time base TAI rather than UTC. Without a strong case for this change (which I haven't seen yet), I would be one of them.
/glen
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Title: RE: [LEAPSECS] making leap hours workable
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Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] making leap hours workable
The second reality is that many existing applications
The second reality is that many existing applications depend on calculations
that assume that time_t has exactly 86400 seconds per year. (Note that it
does NOT follow from this that there are 86400 POSIX seconds in any given
calendar year. ...
Obviously you mean per day.
UTC+TZ is the only
