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

[Ian Batten]

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> I'd imagine there's been court cases that have decided this as well.


I'd be stunned if there were such a court case: a matter in which the  
difference between GMT and UTC (or, indeed, any other 0.9s difference  
in timescales) is going to be at issue is hard enough to construct as  
an abstract exercise.  The legislation that was proposed in 1997  
tidied some loose ends, but I don't think it was primary legislation  
that was desperately needed to tie up complex case law.

I've just done a search for everything which mentions both UTC and GMT  
in Westlaw UK, and there's nothing aside from 12 EU documents, most of  
which are just using "UTC/GMT" in such riveting reads as "Commission  
Regulation (EC) No 3237/94 of 21 December 1994 laying down detailed  
rules for the application of the arrangements for access to waters as  
defined in the Act of Accession of Norway, Austria, Finland and  
Sweden".  Significantly,  search for utc and gmt in cases returns  
nothing.

If anyone knows of a case, shout, but I'd say a null return from a  
primary database of caselaw says that it hasn't been decided in a court.

ian