[tz] New Yorker article on David Mills and NTP

Garrett Wollman wollman at csail.mit.edu
Fri Oct 7 17:59:48 UTC 2022


<<On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 18:34:11 -0700, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> said:

>> exactly 86,400 seconds long.  (POSIX does not include tzcode's
>> timegm() interface

> This will change soon, as C23 will standardize timegm and POSIX will 
> follow suit.

POSIX will follow suit in about 2028, based on prior history.  (The
current POSIX specification is aligned to C11 and the one we're
working on right now is aligned to C17.)

-GAWollman



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