Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:33:59 +1030 | From | David Newall <> | Subject | Re: [ntpwg] Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009 |
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Linas Vepstas wrote: > Currently, the Linux kernel keeps time in UTC. This means > that it must take special actions to tick twice when a leap > second comes by.
Except it doesn't have to tick twice. Refer to http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/7/78 in which I show that a time_t (what time() returns) counts leap seconds (According to Bernstein this is what UTC means), and using zoneinfo, the library processes leap seconds correctly.
I just realised that the Notes in man 2 time are confusing and probably unnecessary. Suffice to say that (assuming correctly configured zoneinfo) time() returns the number of seconds elapsed since start 1970.
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