In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus Danielson write s: >> Ohh, how I wish I were in a position to tell POSIX: "Sorry, the >> time_t definition is wrong (and useless), fix it now please!". > >OUPS! <quick Google search on POSIX time_t> BUT IT IS BROKEN!!!! >However, the ISO C standard has it (more) right. > >Now I learned something. > >Haven't this been discussed with the POSIX people?
"Yeah, we know, we know, but it's too late to fix it now..." :-( >> Heck, I would even love get the Danish parliament to fix the law >> from 18mumble so it doesn't define legal time as "the mean solar >> time of the observatory in Copenhagen". > >Some neighboring countries have aligned their normal and summer time as >offsets to UTC in law, with the shift between them coordinated with the EC. >Yes, you should have the Danish parlament moving in that direction. The law has been "in preparation" ever since the meridian conference in Washington 1873 (or thereabouts). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
