[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Magnus Danielson]

On 18/01/14 11:56, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <52DA2A0F.9060704 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:

>

>> If you where right about not basing it on the orbital debris, then we

>> should not attempt to be using concepts like seconds, minutes, hours,

>> days, weeks, months, years [...]

>

> As you are no doubt aware, the POSIX time_t does not do that.


The POSIX time_t still tries to encode it, using some of the rules that 
makes of UTC, including SI-seconds. However, the argument was not about 
POSIX time_t, but about what "Universal" in UTC actually means.

Cheers,
Magnus