Proposal for new ISO C 9x time API

D. J. Bernstein djb at cr.yp.to
Sun Oct 4 17:41:58 UTC 1998


Markus Kuhn writes:
> In my opinion, leap second tables are a very dubious and extremely
> dangerous concept.

Leap seconds are an inherent part of UTC. If you have an accurate UTC
display, and an accurate difftime(), then you have a leap-second table.

---Dan
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