[time-nuts] Leap seconds and POSIX

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jan 1 18:34:09 UTC 2009


In message: <20090101.112803.179959520.imp at bsdimp.com>
            "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
: If POSIX had allowed for the system time to be TAI, and have the
: offset applied for the display of times, then there would be no
: ambiguity.  However, this is not allowed because one must be able to
: do math on time_t such that time_t % 86400 is midnight.

time_t %86400 == 0 is midnight I should have said...

Warner




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