[LEAPSECS] No leapseconds on trains

[Paul J. Ste. Marie]

On 11/17/2011 3:20 AM,  Poul-Henning Kamp allegedly wrote:

> Definition

> 	A structured type expressing the absolute time in number

> 	of seconds since Universal Co-ordinated Time (UTC), 00:00:00,

> 	1st January 1970


This is abundantly clear--and leap-seconds are irrelevant, since they're 
a formatting convention.  Absolute number of SI seconds since 
1970-01-01Z00:00:00 doesn't change with or without leap-seconds.

 >  (Unix and ANSI-C format).

but if they mean POSIX.1 by that, and not the rather loose original 
definition, that's quite explicitly not the number of seconds.


> In other words: No leap-seconds on trains.


Do you believe the sentence or the parentheses?

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         --Paul