In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes: >On Mar 28, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> But our problems with POSIX may pale soon, when the politically >> ram-rodded, 7000 pages long OOXML standard for "office and business >> documents gets ratified by ISO as a "rubberstamp" standard. >> >> As far as I know that standard gets none of leap years, timezones >> much less leap seconds right. > >And we're to trust the international standards process to define the >fundamental architecture of timekeeping?
I don't know about "trust", but "live with" ? Yes, unfortunately. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
