[LEAPSECS] An example

[Steve Allen]

On Tue 2010-11-02T20:22:29 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:

> It admits no such thing, and for all I know, and despite your

> complaints about the lack of an "essen" unit, that there is more

> than one definition of a second in use at present ?


Section A.4.15
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/xrat/V4_xbd_chap04.html

    "Note that as a practical consequence of this, the length of a
    second as measured by some external standard is not specified."

Is this not the POSIX standard?

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