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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2018 11:05:43 -0700
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Standards <freebsd-standards@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gmtime is not POSIX compliant due to leap seconds
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On 20 May 2018 at 10:18, Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> On May 20, 2018 1:08:13 PM EDT, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
>> This means that gmtime ought not to be affected by leap seconds.
>
> If you are getting leap-second adjustments, then you are using a nonstandard build of the data files with that feature enabled. Don't do that if POSIX behavior is what you want.

Oof. I had WITH_ZONEINFO_LEAPSECONDS_SUPPORT set in src.conf for
reasons I cannot remember.
Thanks!

-- 
Eitan Adler



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