From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jul 24 8:26:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B1A37BB5B for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:26:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05738; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:26:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Garrett Wollman Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/20113: /etc/defaults/make.conf:LEAPSECONDS= true? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:20:04 PDT." <200007241520.IAA52993@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:26:15 +0200 Message-ID: <5736.964452375@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <200007241520.IAA52993@freefall.freebsd.org>, Garrett Wollman writes : > > You added LEAPSECONDS to the zoneinfo Makefile in rev 1.6. Do you think > > it's appropriate to add a commented out entry for it to > > etc/defaults/make.conf ? > > No, I don't. We've already had a few go-arounds on this one, and most > code that exists follows the POSIX premise that leap seconds are > ignored. Eventually, this will not work, but until such time as P1003 > get their act together we should not officially support leap seconds > in the timezone files. (It may turn out that whatever support > eventually is standardized will require API changes as well.) I can add that ntpv4 will add dissemination of the leapsecond table very soon, probably in version 4.1. The precise implications of this is still to be determined. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message