Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:37:46 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009 |
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> - zoneinfo is for offset from UTC, leap seconds are changes in UTC
If you two would stop throwing toys at each other and read the glibc documentation and source you might get somewhere.
> - the standards say that time() returns seconds since the epoch in UTC > _except_ explicity NOT including leap seconds
Glibc has timezone support for both leap second inclusive ("right" as it calls them) and posix time offsets.
Alan
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