[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <52DA845E.4000900 at hfx.eastlink.ca>, "Eric R. Smith" writes:


>> As you are no doubt aware, the POSIX time_t does not do that.

>

>Doesn't it? If POSIX time_t were in fact a count of SI seconds since the

>epoch then the nature of the "leap second problem" would be quite

>different. time_t uses at least the concept of "day".


No, in fact it doesn't, it just counts seconds, one after the other.

The reason why leapseconds is a problem is that people assume that
it *also* counts minutes, hours and days also.

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