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SubjectRe: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009
2009/1/5 john stultz-lkml <johnstul.lkml@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>> The long term solution would be write an RFC to extend
>> NTP to also provide TAI information -- e.g. to add a
>> message that indicates the current leap-second offset
>> between UTC and TAI.
>
> I believe Roman has already added this ability:
> http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=153b5d054ac2d98ea0d86504884326b6777f683d;hp=9f14f669d18477fe3df071e2fa4da36c00acee8e

Well, you're answering a different statment than what
I was talking about -- I wanted to make sure that TAI
information was available via NTP -- this has nothing
to do with the kernel, and would be something available
to all operating systems.

Anyway -- I'm looking at the patch you reference, and
maybe I'm being dumb -- but -- I think I see a bug.

case TIME_DEL decrements TAI, but TIME_INS does
not increment it. Instead, there's a lonely increment in
TIME_OOP which seems wrong. ??


--linas


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