On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
> [POSIX time] is designed to be UTC, but fails to properly implement
> UTC's leap seconds and intervals around leapseconds.

>From the historical point of view I'd say that UNIX time was originally
designed to be some vague form of UT, and the POSIX committee retro-fitted
a weak form of UTC synchronization.

Tony.
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