[LEAPSECS] leap smear

[Tony Finch]

Joe Gwinn <joegwinn at comcast.net> wrote:

>

> Yes.  As defined, POSIX time is in effect a form of TAI, differing by a

> constant offset, but this is nowhere stated.


That's because what you say is wrong. The offset between TAI and time_t
steps when there is a leap second just like UTC, but time_t has no way to
represent a leap second.

Tony.
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