[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers (POSIX time)

[Ian Batten]

On 19 Feb 2011, at 22:27, Paul Sheer wrote:


>> A stand alone machine is going to have its clock drift by more than a

>> few seconds over 10 years.    Leap seconds are in the noise compared

>>

>

> Yes, but the applications running on a standalone machine

> will use the same API's as any other POSIX machine.

>

> Therefore, unless you want two seperate API's, one

> for standalone machines and one for network-connected

> machines


Why would you need that?  An API might accommodate leap seconds, if  
that is required and they exist.  Isolated machines sit on the same  
API, but the leap seconds never come.  Japan doesn't have daylight  
saving times, but they don't run a special version of Unix that lacks  
tm_isdst in a struct tm.

ian