In message: <445cb57a-6fcf-4933-a288-bd1521352...@noao.edu>
Rob Seaman <sea...@noao.edu> writes:
: On Mar 10, 2010, at 10:12 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote:
:
: > Maybe we just need to toss the word 'idealized' in there somehow.
: >
: > time_t is an idealized representation of seconds since 1970.
:
: "Idealized representation" is a tautology.
Actually, it isn't. If it were an actual representation, it would
have leap seconds in it.
Warner
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