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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20080328183718.GA19897 at cox.net>, Greg Hennessy writes:


>My claim is that if POSIX defines time_t % 86400 == 0 as being

>midnight than POSIX doesn't reflect reality, [...]


Well, POSIX clearly doesn't match the scientific definition of
UTC, but as which of the two is more "real" is mostly a matter of
philosophy I think.

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