On Feb 1, 2008 8:24 AM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basicaly the goal ist, to set back the time at a certain moment for 1 > > Second. It's all about the leap-second which might be set every last > > second of the 31th of dec. or 30th of june... > > Doing this with the new date command the time is set back to 2 seconds > > rather then one... with the old date command using the minute's 60st > > second a step-back for one second is possible. > > > > Do you have any idea how this may happen?
Leap seconds occur in UTC. They are often handled by the kernel (if at all) and a common way to do this is to run an NTP client. See also http://www.cis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html It is normally not necessary to introduce a manual adjustment with "date" in order to maintain synchronisation. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
