On 2014-01-18 06:56, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <52da2a0f.9060...@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes: > >> If you where right about not basing it on the orbital debris, then we >> should not attempt to be using concepts like seconds, minutes, hours, >> days, weeks, months, years [...] > > As you are no doubt aware, the POSIX time_t does not do that. >
Doesn't it? If POSIX time_t were in fact a count of SI seconds since the epoch then the nature of the "leap second problem" would be quite different. time_t uses at least the concept of "day". I think actually that's the fundamental problem with time_t -- it presents itself as a count of elapsed time but is in fact a funny representation of civil time (days, minutes, hours, etc.) instead. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
