[LEAPSECS] The ends we seek

[Warner Losh]

On Jan 17, 2012, at 9:53 PM, Rob Seaman wrote:

> Dennis Ferguson wrote:

>> I think the fact is that if you want to run pure POSIX applications on your system reliably you will dump the time synchronization software, set the system clock to your wrist watch at boot time and then let the system clock free run on its local oscillator until you reboot it, since that is the only thing which POSIX defines support for.

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> "Pure POSIX" is an oxymoron of cosmic proportions - and the word POSIX appears nowhere in the "Draft Revision to ITU-R Recommendation TF.460-6".


But it just so happens that this draft changes UTC to match the POSIX definition of time_t where leap seconds don't really exist...

Warner