[LEAPSECS] POSIX and C (Was: Re: ISO Influence)

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <66237B3A-3953-43FF-86D6-9AE1BEFA55D4 at tcs.wap.org>, "Jonathan E. Har
dis" writes:

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>On Dec 22, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Steve Allen wrote:

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>> In constrast, WWV and WWVB do transmit UTC, but nowhere in any U.S.  

>> jurisdiction is that the legal civil time.

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>You might want to rephrase that as a trivia question:  WHERE under  

>U.S. jurisdiction is UTC (no offset) the legal, civil time?


And the answer would have been, during the time where POSIX was a
government requirement:  In all the computers.

Poul-Henning

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