[LEAPSECS] tz mail list, ado points to Matsakis of USNO

[Rob Seaman]

On Mar 1, 2014, at 1:04 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:


> In message <20140301001133.GC12854 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:

> 

>> He says he doesn't know what time it is, but he knows what a second is.

>> 

>> It is again unfortunate that POSIX chose to define the second differently.

> 

> You know perfectly well that POSIX did not "define the second", the

> explicitly picked up the SI standard second.


Rather, Steve's point has always been that POSIX has an incoherent conceptual model for timekeeping.  As far as "explicitly picked", various evidence has been presented that POSIX attempted to ignore the whole thing.  They did not succeed.  Nor will attempts by others.

Rob