In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "M. Warner Losh" writes : >In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >: On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Ashley Yakeley wrote: >: > >: > Presumably it only needs to know the next leap-second to do this, not >: > the whole known table? >: >: Kernels sometimes need to deal with historical timestamps (principally >: from the filesystem) so it'll need a full table to be able to convert >: between POSIX time and atomic time for compatibility purposes. > >Most filesystems store time as UTC anyway...
Actually, I tend to think these are in the minority, but most of the non-UTC ones are of minor significance. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.