[LEAPSECS] POSIX? (was Time math libraries, UTC to TAI)

[Hal Murray]

> One could imagine having a more complicated structure that could cope with
> the inherent ambiguity in future times. I can't say "schedule an event
> exactly 1 year from now" for example without it. I need additional metadata
> around to know if I want it to happen at the same time of day on the same
> date or if I want it to happen after than many seconds have elapsed. You
> can't convert a putative UTC time to TAI time until you are within 6 months
> of that time (the current announcement schedule) because if you try to
> compute that time too far in the future, it will change. ...

Could that be solved with 2 functions in the API, one for N seconds from now, 
and a second for at some future date/time specified in Y/M/D/H/M/S format 
rather than something like a time_t?

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