[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Warner Losh]

On Jan 13, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Tony Finch wrote:


> 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.


The rules I was referring to was 'how to do UTC' not the code and algorithms in UNIX that were being codified.

Warner