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SubjectRe: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009
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On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:33:41 +1030, David Newall said:

> I don't understand why such a simple thing was unnecessarily
> complicated. And causing crashes! Ha ha ha or what? A simple addition
> to zoneinfo was (and still is) all that is required.

Something to keep in mind is that the Posix standard does *NOT* say anything
about leap seconds - poke around in a 'struct tm' sometime.
That's why /usr/share/zoneinfo has separate 'posix' and 'right' subdirectories.

The fun starts when software using the 'right' rules tries to interact with
other software using the Posix rules (quite possibly running on a non-Unixy
system that doesn't even *use* zoneinfo).

Repeat after me: Not all the world is Linux.

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