Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:38:48 +1030 | | From | David Newall <> | | Subject | Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009 |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:33:41 +1030, David Newall said: > > >> I don't understand why such a simple thing was unnecessarily >> complicated. And causing crashes! Ha ha ha or what? A simple addition >> to zoneinfo was (and still is) all that is required. >> > > Something to keep in mind is that the Posix standard does *NOT* say anything > about leap seconds - poke around in a 'struct tm' sometime. >
I have poked, decades ago. There's nothing in struct tm that's a problem.
> That's why /usr/share/zoneinfo has separate 'posix' and 'right' subdirectories. > > The fun starts when software using the 'right' rules tries to interact with > other software using the Posix rules (quite possibly running on a non-Unixy > system that doesn't even *use* zoneinfo). > > Repeat after me: Not all the world is Linux.
But Linux is; and that's what we're discussing.
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