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    SubjectRe: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009
    Oops.

    2009/1/5 Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>:
    > 2009/1/5 john stultz-lkml <johnstul.lkml@gmail.com>:
    >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> wrote:
    >> [snip]
    >>> The long term solution would be write an RFC to extend
    >>> NTP to also provide TAI information -- e.g. to add a
    >>> message that indicates the current leap-second offset
    >>> between UTC and TAI.
    >>
    >> I believe Roman has already added this ability:
    >> http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=153b5d054ac2d98ea0d86504884326b6777f683d;hp=9f14f669d18477fe3df071e2fa4da36c00acee8e
    >
    > Well, you're answering a different statment than what
    > I was talking about -- I wanted to make sure that TAI
    > information was available via NTP -- this has nothing
    > to do with the kernel, and would be something available
    > to all operating systems.
    >
    > Anyway -- I'm looking at the patch you reference, and
    > maybe I'm being dumb -- but -- I think I see a bug.
    >
    > case TIME_DEL decrements TAI, but TIME_INS does
    > not increment it. Instead, there's a lonely increment in
    > TIME_OOP which seems wrong. ??

    Never mind. Sorry, I'm wrong, the code looks right.
    Time to stop reading email, and go to bed. :-)

    --linas


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