Joe Touch <touch(_at_)isi(_dot_)edu> wrote:
We really need to separate the frames of reference of time -
there's no
need for smear for internal "seconds since epoch" time.
Well, the problem is that "seconds since the epoch" is not a count of
UTC seconds, it is a mapping from broken-down time to a linear time, and
the mapping is defined in a way that requires 86400 seconds per day and
does not accommodate leap seconds.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_16
Leap smear exists mainly because "seconds since the epoch" does not
allow for leap seconds.
Tony.
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