Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:52:01 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009 |
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> True but irrelevant because the RTC returns a timestamp. And it's > quietly understood that the RTC is only an approximation.
You miss the point.
The RTC stores the CMOS time in MM DD YY HH:MM:SS format. That conversion is done kernel side when reading/writing the RTC chip. Thus if you are using leap second timing your BIOS RTC values will not agree with the expected value.
> However it is now clear that no special kernel support is required for > leap-seconds, and any such code that's been incorporated needs to be > removed. Removed I say!
There never has been any. Its all handled (both posix and sane) by glibc.
Alan
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