[LEAPSECS] The POSIX Time Rationale - in the Working Group's own words

[Steve Allen]

On Fri 2016-12-30T10:49:19 -0500, Joseph Gwinn hath writ:
> It may prove useful to know why the POSIX Working Group (WG) excluded
> leap seconds, in their own words.

A bit more insight comes from the 1986 draft POSIX and the
1988 first version of the standard.
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/coolpix/posixtime/

Even more insight comes from counting that the 1988 standard has far
more text (with more ruminations and consternation) about time zones
than it has about precision time.

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