convert time to UTC seconds since epoch

[Greg Hennessy]

On 2010-07-21, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Greg Hennessy <greg.hennessy at cox.net> wrote:
>> Given the documentation talks about "double leap seconds" which don't
>> exist, why should this code be trusted?
>
> Because they exist(ed) in POSIX.

Why should POSIX time calculations involving leap seconds be trusted?

This is a pet peeve of mine, when will someone actually implement leap
seconds correctly?

And as a professional astronomer myself, I'm well aware of Steve
Allen's website. :)