Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:41:34 +0200 | | From | Richard Cochran <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Potential fix for leapsecond caused futex related load spikes |
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:05:36PM +0200, Sytse Wielinga wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:23:25AM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote: > > I think the established practice of announcing the event by network is > > the only sane way of handling this issue. The list of TAI-UTC offsets > > belongs to what David Mills has called our "institutional memory", and > > this is a user space issue. The kernel's job is to just live in the > > moment and provide the right time for *now*. > > I do suppose hardware clock and file system times will have to be UTC (or > UTC-based local time) though?
Yes, you are right. Those things can never change. What I have in mind is purely internal to the kernel and won't be visible in any way.
Thanks, Richard
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