On 1/3/2017 2:47 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote:
On 3 Jan 2017, at 20:10, Joe Touch wrote:
They nearly universally use UTC, which is managed by the ITU.
UTC is managed by BIPM in Paris, based on the Metre Convention.
The governance of BIPM can be found here:
<http://www.bipm.org/en/about-us/governance/>
Leap seconds are defined by ITU-R, and decided upon by International Earth
Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS). <https://www.iers.org/>
And possibly more pieces of the puzzle are needed.
So, "its complicated". ;-)
Agreed. Arguably, UTC is calculated by BIPM including leap-second
recommendations by IERS, but the ITU represents its global adoption.
Details not particularly important to this discussion; the point is that
this is a complex issue that has already been addressed. I fail to see
why we just don't consider the Posix definition erroneous and move on...
Joe