[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Tony Finch]

Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

>

> So seeing "GMT" in early Unix documents doesn't necessarily mean what

> you think it means, especially given the first hand accounts of

> participants on this list who specifically asked the people that

> originally wrote it what the intention behind the words was. POSIX

> changed the name to get the intention right, then "simplified" the

> actual rules to make ti "easier" to implement for the "vast majority" of

> users.


I thought they just specified what the existing code did, with the aim of
making the rules more precise, not simpler.

Tony.
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