[time-nuts] Leap Quirks
James Cloos
cloos at jhcloos.com
Sat Jan 3 21:34:24 UTC 2009
>>>>> "Warner" == M Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
Warner> So what you've done is created a new time scale that is a UTC
Warner> from 1972 forward, but a simplified form of UTC prior to 1972
Warner> that didn't match what UTC was doing then.
Grrr! Except s/you/they/; I didn't invent.
So right isn't quite, err, right. I wonder whether the Olsen db can
be fixed to account for that? right/UTC and posix/UTC currently are
identical for all (time_t)LONG_MIN <= time_t < 78796800.
Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten that entirely. (And am
only just vaguely remembering that I used to know that fact. [SIGH])
Warner> Yet another hazard of high precision time keeping that few
Warner> people get right
Part of what makes this list's name so appropriate is just how hard
it is, all things considered. That is also what makes it enjoyable.
Warner> An understandable simplification, to be true, and one that's
Warner> often made...
Often, I'm sure, because not all sources document/remember that fact.
-JimC
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