[LEAPSECS] POSIX Time

[Steve Allen]

POSIX time is simply self-inconsistent as defined.
Different commentators with different preferences cue on different
aspects of the inconsistency.

I prefer to point out that no interpretation of POSIX time can
be consistent with the legal time standard of all nations which
was in contemporary use, as in the javascript here
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/epochtime.html

As such I do not expect that international standards bodies
will ever be able to produce anything other than a compromise
interpretation.

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