Nixon Switch [was: Linux "date" command ignores leap-seconds?]

[Bob Jonkman]

On 13-01-17 04:26 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Of course POSIX says the Epock starts in
> Nixon's reign.  (Who remembers the Nixon Switch in UNIX?)

This has been intriguing me for days, and my Google-fu is inadequate to
the task. What was the Nixon Switch in UNIX?

--Bob.

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