[LEAPSECS] POSIX Time (was WP7A)

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Oct 10 12:20:42 EDT 2009


In message <p06240800c6f64b0a89ae@[192.168.1.212]>, Joe Gwinn writes:


>By definition, POSIX Time is closer to TAI than to UTC,


Uhm, no even close.

POSIX time is UTC pretending leap-seconds do not exist.

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