[LEAPSECS] The relation between calendars and leap seconds.

[Pete Forman]

At 2008-11-12 15:02 +0000, Tony Finch wrote:

>32 bit POSIX time is signed so extends back before its

>(proleptic) epoch of 1970-01-01, and it's not unreasonable to use negative

>times to represent (say) timestamps on files archived from the 1960s.


That is not so.  The POSIX definition of Seconds Since the Epoch contains:

>If the year is <1970 or the value is negative, the relationship is undefined.


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