[LEAPSECS] operational time -- What's in a name?

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Fri Mar 28 13:17:15 EDT 2008


Steve Allen scripsit:


> The POSIX standard is in denial about leap seconds with respect to

> UTC. I don't know about international standards, but in people I'm

> sure that's not a good sign, and I try to avoid such.


Not exactly. What it denies is that there is necessarily 1s between
values of time_t that differ by 1. Sometimes there is 2s.

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