zoneinfo/right/

[Pablo Saratxaga]

Kaixo!

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:10:34PM +0100, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:

> Could someone point me who use /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/ ? and if
> it's needed ?

The problem came because a year has not an exact length, but there are one
or two seconds a year of difference (some years more, some years less;
it compensates and is generelly disregarded).

So, the discussion among programmers was if to implement a time handling
simple but not 100% exact, or a complex and 100% exact one.
It may be possible that POSIX simply implements the simple one and the
right/ directory provides the other.

That being said, such kind of distinction is only useful if you are doing
research in atomics or astronomy or things like that.


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