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
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
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
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
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
