> Thanks for giving us this history.
You are most welcome.
The POSIX time dance was an interesting lesson is damage mitigation
vs. desire to do something better than existing common practice.
During the process some of the active POSIX P1003.1 members ended up
learning a lot more than they expec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit:
> As one of the main people who worked on time related aspects of the
> IEEE P1003.1 POSIX standard, I'd like to make a few comments about how
> it came to be the way it is now.
Thanks for giving us this history.
>This proposal was largely accepted. However t
As one of the main people who worked on time related aspects of the
IEEE P1003.1 POSIX standard, I'd like to make a few comments about how
it came to be the way it is now.
First I'd like to tell you about the early consensus on time; before
any of the POSIX time specs were written. I'm not saying
