[LEAPSECS] leap smear

[Warner Losh]

On Sep 16, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <p06240801ca9937bef3c3@[192.168.1.101]>, Joe Gwinn writes:

>> At 5:20 PM +0000 9/16/11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> 

>>> Actually, I don't think it is, because it's not UTC for a lot

>>> more time that the leap-second.  POSIX time is UTC execept

>>> for during leap-seconds.

>> 

>> POSIX time as defined in the standard is *not* UTC.

> 

> No, but the second they use is "nominally equal to an International

> System (SI) second in duration." so any rubber-second implementation

> which has rubber seconds stretching beyond the actual leap-second

> is not POSIX/ISO-C compliant.


Wouldn't that make adjtime() non-conforming?

Warner