Re: RFC 99 (v2) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch

[Russ Allbery]

Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Leap-seconds are a PITA for generic time routines.

Unix time ignores leap seconds.  POSIX basically says "don't worry about
them" and by and large that works.  It means your system clock drifts a
little over time and then gets corrected back by xntpd or something, but
in practice time on a Unix clock is monotonic.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>