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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: ctime(3) and leap seconds :-)
Message-ID: <6977@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 8 Jan 88 04:46:32 GMT
References: <604@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <6976@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 7
Keywords: ctime, leap second, epoch

In article <6976@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>The C library time routines are not PERMITTED to know about leap
>seconds, according to the current draft proposed ANSI C standard.

Oops, excuse me -- it is IEEE Std 1003.1 (POSIX) Draft 12 that
says this; ANSI C does not dictate what the system time
representation is.