From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 06:12:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBAAE16A41F for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 06:12:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benfell@parts-unknown.org) Received: from parts-unknown.org (thunder.cybernude.org [66.93.170.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18F7643D55 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 06:12:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benfell@parts-unknown.org) Received: (qmail 3398 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2006 06:12:12 -0000 Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:12:12 -0800 From: David Benfell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060103061212.GA27847@parts-unknown.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060102162117.GB14097@merlin.emma.line.org> <80148.1136231640@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80148.1136231640@critter.freebsd.dk> X-stardate: [-29]5106.25 X-moon: The Moon is Waxing Crescent (13% of Full) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i Subject: Re: FreeBSD handles leapsecond correctly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 06:12:14 -0000 On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:54:00 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > If there are no more leap seconds, POSIX doesn't have to specify > how to deal with them. > Isn't this a rather unrealistic position? You can quote POSIX til you're blue in the face, but leap seconds are how UTC deals with the slowing of earth's rotation. And to complain about this seems about as sensible as complaining about leap days. Now, if POSIX can't deal with leap seconds, then it seems like you have a choice. You can stick to UTC because that's the standard that underlies civil time. Or you can stick with POSIX and your system clock can progressively gain time. It strikes me that POSIX purity here insists on a deviance from reality. And that doesn't strike me as particularly sane. -- David Benfell, LCP benfell@parts-unknown.org --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/