[LEAPSECS] Future time

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 18 Jan 2014 at 19:51, Warner Losh wrote:


> Of course, the 6 month window does make it impossible to compute a time_t for a known

> interval into the future that's longer than 6 months away...


What are the applications that actually need to schedule events more 
than 6 months in the future that need to be precisely synchronized to 
civil time at a resolution of under a second? Gee, I might miss the 
plane for the airline reservation I made 7 months in advance if I 
show up one second late! (Actually, both myself and the airline, if 
we care about this level of detail, will have adjusted our 
clocks/watches by flight day, including any leap seconds in the 
interim, and I'll be right on time.)

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