Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:42:02 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, andre@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/vmstat vmstat.c src/usr.bin/w w.c Message-ID: <30677.1129909322@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:32:34 MDT." <20051021.093234.116607170.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20051021.093234.116607170.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >It is a problem. If I boot a system today, the authors of the >software still cannot know the example that I gave. Since there's no >leap second table by default, the system may get the answer wrong. >That's what is so evil about leap seconds. You can't plan more than 6 >months into the future. It's worse than 6 months, just because IERS says there will or wont be a leap second in 6 months time doesn't mean that they can't change their mind later on, technically it is only one month ahead. Fortunately, this is not relevant with the current geophysics. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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