On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:39:00 +0000, Zefram wrote: > Joseph Gwinn wrote: >> No. If your poke around into how time is used, you will discover that >> what is stored is the count of seconds since the Epoch. Broken-down >> time is used only when there is a human to be humored. > > Sure, scalar time_t values are used underneath, and I didn't say > otherwise. That's what time_t is for. The kernel even increments the > time_t clock, most of the time, as if it's a linear count of seconds, > which is how it behaves on the small scale outside the immediate > vicinity of leap seconds. But a kernel that knows about leap seconds > then introduces a discontinuity in the scalar value, somewhere near each > leap, to maintain the scalar<->UTC relationship. > >> POSIX time is defined without reference to NTP, > > Indeed. The two definitions are separate, but match in most of their > design features.
The word I would have used is "parallel". NTP and UNIX/POSIX solve different problems, but still the similarity wasn't quite a happy accident. Joe Gwinn _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
