Re: TAI-based non-POSIX time_t

Markus Kuhn writes:

such things tend to be neglected, and then the local times get derived inaccurately

How come you aren't screaming about the much larger local-time errors that occur when tz updates are neglected? Those errors are thousands of times larger! Why aren't you proposing that UNIX time_t be local time? Eventually we'll all have the TAI-to-local-time tables automatically updated through the network. The existing software, even without perfect automation, already gives us accurate local-time displays---a basic test flunked by all of your proposals whenever leap seconds occur. ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago