[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Warner Losh]

On Jan 18, 2014, at 6:31 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote:


> 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.


POSIX time_t is explicitly not UTC.

Warner