Daniel Gibson Wrote: > > Synchronization can fail if the code asserts that number of seconds is not > > greater than 59 (Jonathan's lib does the same, I think). Is it the cause? > > How are leap seconds handled on a computer anyway? Does the clock really > count > to 60 seconds (instead of 59) before the next minute starts, or is the clock > just slowed down a bit (like it's - IIRC - done when changing the time with > NTP > or such)?
This is how it looked on linux: bash-2.05b# date Thu Jan 1 00:59:58 CET 2009 bash-2.05b# date Thu Jan 1 00:59:59 CET 2009 bash-2.05b# date Thu Jan 1 00:59:60 CET 2009 bash-2.05b# date Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 CET 2009 bash-2.05b# date Thu Jan 1 01:00:01 CET 2009 bash-2.05b#
