Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
That part of the Makefile was not-so-subtly advocating "right" time. That advocacy made sense when "right" time was the only automatic way to deal with leap seconds. Nowadays other approaches are more popular in practice, so it makes sense to tone down the advocacy and to say how "posix" and "right" interoperate with these other approaches, which is what the recently-proposed changes are trying to do.
I don't think `right` time interoperates with anything :-) It really ought to come with a huge warning banner telling anyone who chooses it that they will have a huge pile of 37s offset bugs. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Biscay: Southeasterly 3 or 4, occasionally 5 at first in east. Slight or moderate. Mainly fair. Good, occasionally poor.