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

[John Cowan]

Greg Hennessy scripsit:


> My claim is that if POSIX defines time_t % 86400 == 0 as being

> midnight than POSIX doesn't reflect reality, since people think

> "midnight" as being UTC rather than POSIX. 


When it's midnight UTC, a properly time-aware Posix system *will*
report that time_t % 86400 == 0.  That's about as congruent to
reality is any system can get.

Unfortunately, it reports the same thing at 23:59:60 UTC on days
when such a second exists.

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