[LEAPSECS] operational time -- What's in a name?

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Fri Mar 28 11:28:53 EDT 2008


On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Greg Hennessy wrote:

>

> > although naive math is, well, naive, more code exists that assumes,

> > for example, that midnight it time_t % 86400 == 0 than you want to

> > believe. Changing this is really bad karma.

>

> The current situation is that code like your example does not accurately

> reflect reality.


The POSIX standard guarantees that what Warner wrote is correct.

Tony.
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