On 2019-01-17 12:38 PM, Steve Allen wrote:
On Thu 2019-01-17T18:12:25+0100 Martin Burnicki hath writ:
Hm, maybe that was originally the case. I wonder whether the folks who
wrote the text just had UTC in mind when they "invented" time_t.
The best insight into the POSIX committee was posted on LEAPSECS in
2003
https://www.mail-archive.com/leapsecs@rom.usno.navy.mil/msg00109.html
In private discussion with one member of that committee on that topic it
was said "... but the time people would just not stop arguing!". Funny
how everybody knows what time is but can't agree on what time is.
-Brooks
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