In message <[email protected]>, Chuck Harris writes: >> time_t is better defined as: >> >> d * 86400 + min(rs, 86399) >> >> where: >> d = Number of complete days since 1970-01-01H00:00:00Z >> rs = number of seconds since UTC midnight. >> >> Eliminating leapseconds would make it correct however. > >I believe your use of the phrase "make it correct" shows your bias >towards removing the leap second corrections from UTC. This is my >bias as well.
Correct, I don't think leap seconds provide any benefit that come close to the problems they cause, and I see the cost of fixing POSIX and auditing all relevant apps after such a change as totally pointless time & effort spent. -- 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] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
