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

[John Cowan]

Steve Allen scripsit:


> The POSIX standard is in denial about leap seconds with respect to

> UTC.  I don't know about international standards, but in people I'm

> sure that's not a good sign, and I try to avoid such.


Not exactly.  What it denies is that there is necessarily 1s between
values of time_t that differ by 1.  Sometimes there is 2s.

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