From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 11 11:55:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA09479 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 11:55:59 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA09473 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 11:55:58 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA15238; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:55:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:55:38 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501111955.AA15238@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Leap seconds In-Reply-To: <9501111907.AA01667@aut.alcatel.at> References: <9501111907.AA01667@aut.alcatel.at> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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