M. Warner Losh wrote:
In message: <13205c286662de4387d9af3ac30ef456afa8697...@embx01-wf.jnpr.net> Jonathan Natale <jnat...@juniper.net> writes: : AFAIK, routers also just re-sych. The OS's are not capable of : xx:xx:60 time. For reading router logs this is fine in most cases : which is all NTP is really for. I don't think they simply step the : time, I am pretty sure they do tweak the freq. I could be wrong and : I am NOT representing Juniper here, just my thoughts. :-)FreeBSD will cope with the xx:xx:60 second correctly, assuming it is told about the leapsecond soon enough. Not all other parts of the system can cope with the xx:xx:60, but that's a posix time_t limitation that you can't do anything about[*]. Warner [*] The 'right' timezone files attempt to do things correctly, but in doing so they break time_t definition...
I assumed you meant to say that it breaks the POSIX time_t definition. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
