May 26, 1998
7:27 p.m.
From: "Olson, Arthur David" <OLSONA@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 12:10:43 -0400 might a name more neutral than "zoneinfo-right" be better? One possible alternative is "zoneinfo-leaps". This would be a bit clearer than "-right". (The POSIX.1 limit on name length is 14 chars, alas.) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 18:01:43 +0100 (BST) From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> What Epoch do systems that use leap seconds use? In practice, such systems define 1972-01-01 00:00:00Z == (time_t) 63072000, i.e. it's as if there were no leap seconds before 1972. do they actually use 1972-01-01 00:00:00Z - 730 days? Yes.