On Tue 2011-02-08T17:03:31 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ: > NTP also does everything in UTC time
No, NTP does not use UTC per se. The existing implementations make that specification misleading. Rather, NTP uses the internationally approved broadcast time scale. The implementations do not know the name of that time scale. Only the documentation knows that. (This is, of course, discounting those site whose sensitivity to leap seconds is so great that they are using some sort of GPS-based or TAI-based master timeserver for their NTP.) The point of my suggestion for using zoneinfo to propagate the leap seconds is that both NTP and POSIX would de facto, silently, and inconsequentially change to using TI rather than UTC if the name of the internationally approved time scale changed to that. The systems would keep working just fine -- even better if they do not like leaps. The documentation could be fixed up later, and the situation would not be any more confusing than it is now. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 University of California Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs