Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jun 1998 22:57:44 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Y2K |
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From: "Marsh Ray" <marsh_lin@ad-hoc.gainesville.fl.us> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:44:10 -0400
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)?
POSIX time ignores leap-seconds. There are various flamewars that periodically occur about whether this is the Right Thing (tm), but the POSIX standard is pretty clear about that.
Everything is defined in terms of "seconds since the Epoch".
- Ted
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