[LEAPSECS] No leapseconds on trains

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Poul-Henning Kamp said:

> We're having a bit of a project management scandal in Denmark related

> to purchase of 83 "IC4" trains.

> 

> Reasearching this, I have been reading up on MVB, "Multi Vehicle

> Bus" (IEC61375) which is how modern rail-hardware talks to each

> other, which is good geek material btw, some smart thinking in

> there.

[...]

> 	Notation for the TIMEDATE48 type

> 

> 	Definition

> 	A structured type expressing the absolute time in number

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

> 	1st January 1970 (Unix and ANSI-C format).


Could you please tell them that that is *NOT* the ANSI-C format (not that
there is such a thing as ANSI-C, but never mind). The C Standard does not
put any requirements on the representation of times.

-- 
Clive D.W. Feather          | If you lie to the compiler,
Email: clive at davros.org     | it will get its revenge.
Web: http://www.davros.org  |   - Henry Spencer
Mobile: +44 7973 377646