Re: [LEAPSECS] Introduction of long term scheduling

From: Tony Finch <dot_at_dotat.at>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 23:50:38 +0000

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
> [POSIX time] is designed to be UTC, but fails to properly implement
> UTC's leap seconds and intervals around leapseconds.

From the historical point of view I'd say that UNIX time was originally
designed to be some vague form of UT, and the POSIX committee retro-fitted
a weak form of UTC synchronization.

Tony.

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