On 19 Dec 2010, at 01:18, Magnus Danielson <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is true, if we by "computing" means POSIX.
There are many standards other than POSIX which use a POSIX timescale or one equivalent to it. For example, NTFS, DNSSEC and NTP's basic timescale. > POSIX as extended by NTP kernel interface may however provide sufficient > information to represent UTC. For the current time, yes, but all the higher level libraries cannot represent UTC so code can't do calculations with time correctly. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
