Joe Touch <touch(_at_)isi(_dot_)edu> wrote:
You're right; I got it backwards. Except it admits it's an
approximation:
"A value that approximates the number of seconds that have
elapsed since
the Epoch."
Thank you :-)
This kind of confusion is why leap seconds don't work in practice.
However, when you are computing epoch time from UTC, you'd have to
account for the leap seconds since epoch to correct for the difference
in actual elapsed seconds.
POSIX and NTP say you aren't allowed to account for leap seconds when
computing seconds since the epoch from UTC.
Tony.
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