[LEAPSECS] [time-nuts] Leap Quirks

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Mon Jan 5 00:36:12 EST 2009


M. Warner Losh wrote:


> POSIX doesn't support leap seconds.


I'm curious. Is this the only widely recognized shortcoming of POSIX?

I mean - either POSIX is riddled with numerous other mistakes - or
this is the only issue remaining to address before POSIX is
perfected :-)

I suspect it is not the latter case, which suggests that there is a
list of other such instances where POSIX fails to implement long-
standing international standards.

Rob



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