[LEAPSECS] Running on TAI

Brooks Harris brooks at edlmax.com
Thu Jan 17 15:57:42 EST 2019


On 2019-01-17 12:38 PM, Steve Allen wrote:
> On Thu 2019-01-17T18:12:25+0100 Martin Burnicki hath writ:
>> Hm, maybe that was originally the case. I wonder whether the folks who
>> wrote the text just had UTC in mind when they "invented" time_t.
> The best insight into the POSIX committee was posted on LEAPSECS in
> 2003
> https://www.mail-archive.com/leapsecs@rom.usno.navy.mil/msg00109.html
>
>
>

In private discussion with one member of that committee on that topic it 
was said "... but the time people would just not stop arguing!". Funny 
how everybody knows what time is but can't agree on what time is.

-Brooks


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