Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:55:38 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Leap seconds Message-ID: <9501111955.AA15238@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <9501111907.AA01667@aut.alcatel.at> References: <9501111907.AA01667@aut.alcatel.at>
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<<On Wed, 11 Jan 1995 20:07:40 +0100 (MET), Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac) said: > what are the leap seconds, and what happens with them? > Most importantly, if a leap second occurs, does the > tv_secs get incremented or not? That depends on whether you are running NTP or not. See the code in kern_clock.c which implements the NTP PLL for how NTP handles it. In the absence of a synchronization protocol like NTP which can notify the kernel of upcoming leap second insertions or deletions, there is nothing that an be done automatically. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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