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On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
> The definition of time_t is simply a number of seconds since a
> specified event.

... modulo leap second adjustments.

time_t cannot encode UTC correctly since you need more than a simple
scalar to do so (e.g. you need a TAI offset or a leap second flag).

Tony.
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