On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 03:05:35 +0000, 'Peter Backes' wrote: ... > The bigger issue is usually to copy with those pesky leap seconds. It > makes a difference whether one uses solar seconds ("posix" style; those > are more commonly seen) or atomic seconds ("right" style) for the UNIX > timestamp. Is there any system, unix or otherwise, that uses 'right'-style seconds, i.e. TAI, as its base? (I.e. one where (time(0)%60) does not indicate the current position of the second hand of an accurate clock?) - Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800