3 Feb
2005
3 Feb
'05
12:57 p.m.
Aaron Denney
It's not clear what POSIX should have done.
Yes, it is. Monotonic consistently scaled time is far more important than future conversions to UTC.
"Future" becomes "past" as time passes. IMHO it's more important to have rules which don't change every few months than to have a uniform clock speed. The choice "let time_t represent TAI" would not have been a viable alternative for POSIX without introducing some machinery for maintaining the leap second table, because people use local time which is derived from UTC for displaying the time. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/