[LEAPSECS] the presidential pen hath writ

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20070810140023.GA29890 at ucolick.org>
            Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org> writes:

: Watch these spaces

: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h2272:

: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-2272

: for according to Jonathan Hardis as soon as they catch up on their

: paperwork they'll note that the US has joined the UTC club.

: 

: Get ready to party.  By strict interpretation of the legal time

: scale of the US, the count of seconds elapsed here currently agrees

: with the time_t on a POSIX system with a correctly set clock.  Both

: have been counting mean solar seconds since 1970.

: 

: The next time that Daniel Gambis makes the announcement we can prepare

: to celebrate the first legally-occurring leap second in US history,

: and at the same time watch the POSIX clock diverge from the legal clock.


What makes you think that POSIX clock will diverge from the legal
clock?

Warner