In message: <20100905152531.ga17...@ucolick.org>
Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> writes:
: In the social structure of the POSIX community is it likely that such
: a technical question could get suitable attention prior to an openly
: available draft of TF.460 suggesting that outcome?
It is my belief that any new time scale could be included in a newer
version of POSIX/Opengroup documents. Changing Coordinated Universal
Time to Something Else would be easy. Changing any semantics apart
from the name might be hard. Even a name change likely would need a
note saying that this change is due to an external event and time_t
really isn't changing.
It is also my belief that leap seconds will continue to not exist. As
Joe Gwinn pointed out, there's two properties of time_t that are
stronger than UTC or the underlying time scale: it is assumed to be
monotonically increasing and a number of seconds since the epoch
formula requires start of day % 86400 == 0.
Warner
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