[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6

Greg Hennessy greg.hennessy at cox.net
Sun Aug 11 14:21:41 EDT 2013




> The POSIX standard in fact forbids it, precisely to escape the time

> wars.


If the guys writing POSIX think that forbidding POSIX from matching
reality means no time wars, I think they have another think coming.



> However, POSIX allows an implementation (read, operating system) to

> define as many named clocks as desired.


I have never head of this before. How does one define a (for example)
UTC clock in a POSIX system?





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