Re: TAI and qmail

So, to summarize: qmail computes time labels directly from a system time 
expressed as the number of seconds elapsed from an epoch, without taking 
care what epoch it is based on. Without patching, concurrent use of 
clockspeed and qmail is not a good idea. If I am making any logical error, 
please, correct me.

Jan

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Paul Jarc wrote:

> Alex Stevens <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I can't see a reason for this date more than another, or a reason
> > why qmail timestamps ignore how the system treats leapseconds.
> 
> Well, it ensures that you can interpret the produced string (i.e.,
> find the original time_t value) without needing to know how $TZ or
> /etc/localtime might have been set when the string was generated.  But
> you lose the knowledge of how the rest of the system interprets the
> same time_t value, so that value is of limited, uh, value.
> 
> 
> paul
>