Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:53:46 -0600 | From | "Linas Vepstas" <> | Subject | Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009 |
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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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