[LEAPSECS] ITU-R SG7 to consider UTC on October 4

Zefram zefram at fysh.org
Mon Aug 9 14:48:54 EDT 2010


Steve Allen wrote:

> The way that zoneinfo is structured gives

>the impression that POSIX systems (and anything which handles local

>civil time in a roughly equivalent way) could handle such a name change,


Zoneinfo doesn't model the differences between flavours of UT, or
indeed any sub-second effects. So yes, it can handle the name change,
presuming that we treat TI as a flavour of UT for this purpose.
(While it's certainly not a flavour of UT for many other purposes,
not least the plain definition of UT.)

-zefram


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