[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers

[Joe Gwinn]

At 12:56 AM +0200 2/19/11, Paul Sheer wrote:

>On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 11:39 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:

>

>>

>>  That's part of the compromise that I've put forward.  Goal: publish them

>  > out 10-20 years.  [...]


[snip]


>There is still the Posix malady. There has to be a way for Posix to

>properly handle leap seconds in a way that is either compatible with

>what applications do now, or for which there is a migration path to

>correct behavior.


I have not been following the proposal in detail, but a key issue to 
the POSIX community is that their timescale must be implementable in 
a totally isolated machine, one having no GPS or internet access.

There are other requirements as well.  This was discussed at length 
on the Time Nuts reflector, until Tom kicked the thread over to Leap 
Secs.

Joe Gwinn