On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2025, enh wrote: > > >not when POSIX screwed up and made a change that made most of the > >existing implementations non-conformant, no. that sounds like a POSIX > > “most of”?
...weighted by number of users (who could be negatively affected by change), of course. > Looks to me like most implementations already do the latter, > and some might do the former, and only a minority (the three > mentioned earlier) don’t. > > bye, > //mirabilos > -- > “It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as > seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of > seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.” > -- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2
