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

[Ian Batten]

On 23 Dec 2010, at 20:31, Tony Finch wrote:


> On 23 Dec 2010, at 07:48, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> 

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

>> dis" writes:

>>> 

>>> 

>>> 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.

> 

> Or in USAF bases in the UK during the winter.


UTC is not _legal_ time in the UK, as Clive points out.

ian