Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:54:19 +0000 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009 |
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> The range of signed 32-bit times is 1901 through 2039, which has only > one century, 2000, which is a leap year. So the caveat for leap years > is correct but unnecessary.
The standard however (and library code) were updated many years ago, so the description is still wrong.
> So I've discoverd, at least on Ubuntu, something wonderful and > reassuring. It already works exactly the way I think is correct. Look: > I create a test timezone with no daylight saving and one leap second:
This is entirely configurable - see my earlier post about the "right" and posix timezones. Really however that belongs on the glibc list.
As far as the kernel and leapseconds go - remember the kernel RTC support does not know about leap seconds
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