Messages in this thread | | | From | "Marsh Ray" <> | Subject | Re: Y2K | Date | Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:44:10 -0400 |
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From: Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> >The whole yy:mm:dd:hh:mm:ss ball of wax must be synchronous. At >last reading, this was done by "Convention", i.e., international >agreement. The drift of Earth time from Celestial time is periodically >taken out by leap-seconds.
I'm curious: How does the Kernel handle the leap-second? Does it record a minute with 61 seconds somewhere? If so, doesn't it break programs which count on (SECONDS_PER_MINUTE == 60)?
Or does something like ntpd spread that leap second out over some period of time? Is there some "Convention" of the rate to re-adjust?
- Marsh
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