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Date:      Thu, 2 Jul 2015 06:27:28 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
To:        Leif Pedersen <bilbo@hobbiton.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-security@freebsd.org" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Leap Second
Message-ID:  <20150701202728.GA9532@server.rulingia.com>
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On 2015-Jul-01 12:46:21 -0500, Leif Pedersen <bilbo@hobbiton.org> wrote:
>Is there a reasonable way to enable awareness of leap-seconds while syncing
>with ntpd? That is to say, how can I get the system to include leap-seconds
>in calculating `date +%s`, without having `date` be off by 26[1] seconds?

ntpd(8) has provision for specifying a leapsecond file which presumably
makes it leap-second aware.  I haven't looked into the details.

There's also posix2time(3) to convert between a TAI-based time_t and a
POSIX-based time_t.

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Peter Jeremy

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