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[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <20150521134322.GG10661 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:

>POSIX does not want to know geophysics, nor astrometry, nor politics.
>POSIX does not care what is meant by "day".
>POSIX wants someone else to decide what "day" means, and for all those
>other details to be handled outside the kernel in the libraries and
>applications.

POSIX is not just a kernel API, it *also* defines the functions for
deciding what "day" means and all that.

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