[LEAPSECS] POSIX Time

[Steve Allen]

On 2009 Oct 11, at 12:43, Joe Gwinn wrote:

> Here is my posting to the POSIX Committee (and Austin Group) on the  

> requirements, summarizing debate up till then:

>

> <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/austin-group-l/ 

> msg02131.html>



One other practical requirement exists as a result of currently
deployed solutions.

The value of time_t must have a simple correspondence to one
of the existing broadcast time scales.  For most ensembles of
systems that time scale has to be whatever time scale is specified
by the ITU-R, but as we have read, some ensembles of systems
do choose GPS time.

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