[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Goerzen) wrote on 20.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What's the big deal? Why would you have to update everything? All > you do is add an extra second to your system clock at the end of June > and be done with it. Or you don't. Big deal. That's when you use POSIX time. I said POSIX time was the way to go, didn't I? So-called "real" (or was it "right"?) time is the problem, because the machine has to *know* about all leap seconds to get it right. With POSIX time, there's no need to know anything about leap seconds - which, after all, are completely unpredictable. Also, non-POSIX time gets you the dreaded "timezone differs by a non- integral amount of minutes from GMT" (or whatever the exact wording is) from 822-date when you try to do a dpkg-buildpackage. MfG Kai -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
