[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Greg Hennessy]

On 01/18/2014 09:21 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> No, in fact it doesn't, it just counts seconds, one after the other.

>

> The reason why leapseconds is a problem is that people assume that

> it *also* counts minutes, hours and days also.


Others would say that "the reason" there is a a problem is
that time_t does not count the leap seconds. Thus, when
I ask for the number of seconds since the epoch, I'm given
the wrong answer. Wrong by the number of leapseconds.