[tz] New Yorker article on David Mills and NTP

Guy Harris gharris at sonic.net
Thu Oct 6 23:50:19 UTC 2022


On Oct 6, 2022, at 3:48 PM, Brooks Harris <brooks at edlmax.com> wrote:

> On 2022-10-06 6:35 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 6, 2022, at 1:41 PM, Brooks Harris via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I would add that Posix relies on the c standard,
>> Which appears neither to mandate nor forbid leap seconds.
> 
> Take your pick. :-)

Which is exactly what POSIX did; they chose "forbid".

Some other platform could choose "mandate".

Both platforms' implementation of C could conform to the standard.


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