Steve Summit wrote:
>which keep true UTC in the kernel (accepting it from NTP), and do
>the smearing when user mode code asks for a time_t.

Even better.  Presumably user-mode code calling adjtimex(2) would see the
real UTC parameters, and the flag controlling smearing?  There should
be some way for sufficiently aware user-mode code to detect this and
recover real UTC.

-zefram
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