[LEAPSECS] Some definitions --> practically stated

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <1299636769.12189.132.camel at localhost>, Paul Sheer writes:


>Posix time

>

>Posix time is just a definition of the relationship between days and

>logical seconds: i.e. there are 86400 of them in a day and the first day

>is 1970-01-01. Posix time is a 32/64-bit (signed) logical second value.


POSIX also allows time_t to be a floating point value:

	time_t and clock_t shall be integer or real-floating types.

Very little, if any, code survives compilation on a system where
time_t is a double.

Technical speaking we also need ISO-C time, which uses a looser
definition than POSIX.

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