Brooks Harris <bro...@edlmax.com> wrote: > On 2015-03-07 03:01 PM, Steve Allen wrote: > > > I would say that the intent NTP and POSIX is to correspond to civil > > time in contemporary use. Therefore, for dates before 1972-01-01 > > NTP and POSIX are counting seconds of UT. > > This paragraph in your email had me scratching my head a little. > > I think none of the "civil" timescales are counting in UT - they are > measured in SI Seconds, even when prolpetic to 1972. > > Am I missing something here?
POSIX time is defined by a mapping from broken-down civil time labels to a scalar value. Currently civil time is UTC; in the past it was some other variant of UT. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Southeast Biscay, Southeast Fitzroy: Variable 4. Rough. Fair. Good. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
