On Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 11:49 AM Joseph Gwinn wrote:
> General comment:
>
> The POSIX standards which unix and variants follow uses a string time
> format that looks like UTC, but is not, because leap seconds are
> never applied. This was done precisely because an isolated unix box
> had no access
On Sat 2022-10-29T13:48:19-0400 Joseph Gwinn hath writ:
> So, those faulty designers of yore had insufficient clairvoyance
> skills.
Not the fault of the designers.
The Time Lords who incepted leap seconds were caught between
conflicting legal requirements. They had no choice, or rather, no
choi
Joseph Gwinn wrote in
<20221029134819386898.e3c27...@comcast.net>:
|General comment:
|
|The POSIX standards which unix and variants follow uses a string time
|format that looks like UTC, but is not, because leap seconds are
|never applied. This was done precisely because an isolated unix b
jimlux wrote in
:
|On 10/28/22 11:10 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> Steve Allen wrote in
|> <20221028045813.ga20...@ucolick.org>:
|>|On Thu 2022-10-27T19:25:01-0700 Steve Allen hath writ:
|>|> Levine, Tavella, and Milton have an upcoming article for Metrologia
|>|> on the issue of leap sec
General comment:
The POSIX standards which unix and variants follow uses a string time
format that looks like UTC, but is not, because leap seconds are
never applied. This was done precisely because an isolated unix box
had no access to leap-second information; this was the norm in that
day,
Warner Losh wrote in
:
|On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:11 PM Steffen Nurpmeso
|wrote:
|> Steve Allen wrote in
|> <20221028045813.ga20...@ucolick.org>:
|>|On Thu 2022-10-27T19:25:01-0700 Steve Allen hath writ:
|>|> Levine, Tavella, and Milton have an upcoming article for Metrologia
|>|> on the