July 29, 2015
2:52 p.m.
On Tuesday, July 28 2015, "Paul Eggert" wrote to "Kees Dekker, Time zone mailing list" saying:
+ date now sets the time of day via the POSIX clock_settime function + instead of via the older nonstandard settimeofday function.
clock_settime isn't actually that portable; notably, Mac OS X doesn't implement it. (It was part of the optional "Timers" extension to Posix in the Posix 2008 release, only making it into the core specification in the 2013 release.) -- Jonathan Lennox lennox@cs.columbia.edu