Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:25:34 -0600 | From | Chris Adams <> | Subject | Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009 |
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Once upon a time, David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> said: > No. Exactly the contrary. I'm saying that through use of zoneinfo, for > example, no kernel support is required for leap seconds. And! this > provides correct results for seconds-between two dates.
Again: zoneinfo provides offset from UTC. Leap seconds are changes in UTC itself, not time zones, so zoneinfo can't handle that.
Please go read Google, Wikipedia, and NTP lists. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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