Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 5 Dec 2005 11:35:57 +0100 (CET) | | From | Roman Zippel <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2) |
Hi,
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, George Anzinger wrote:
> In a discusson aroung the leapsecond and how to disable it (some folks don't > want the time jump) it came to light that, for the most part, this is unused > code. It requires that time be kept in UST to be useful and, from what I can > tell, most folks keep time in their local timezone, thus, effectively, > disableing the usage of the leapsecond correction (ntp figures this out and > just says "no"). Possibly it is time to ask if we should keep this in the > kernel at all.
I'm thinking about moving the leap second handling to a timer, with the new timer system it would be easy to set a timer for e.g. 23:59.59 and then set the time. This way it would be gone from the common path and it wouldn't matter that much anymore whether it's used or not.
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