[LEAPSECS] it's WP7A week in Geneva

[Steve Allen]

On Wed 2009-09-09T15:14:01 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ:

>       Why leap seconds are difficult to get right for an equipment vendor

>         Sam Stein, Symmetricom, Inc.


I'd like to see what the folks from Meinberg have to say about that.

... because POSIX does not admit that leap seconds exist.

... because there is no implementation which is right in all jurisdictions
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/epochtime.html

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