Rick Measham wrote:
> I'm aware that it doesn't measure them ... but I'm wondering why? Surely
> that makes it Capital-W-Wrong. Perl will return the Wrong number of
> elapsed seconds since 1970  ...

That depends on what kind of seconds you are counting.
It is right if you are counting mean solar seconds.  See
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html#POSIX

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