----- Original Message ----- > From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com>
> DST is a time-zone specific phenomenon. Nobody said *anything* about DST; that's a complete red herring to discussions of leap seconds. > Leap seconds are changes to the actual core time. UTC moves with leap > seconds. Correct. > The system clock needs to be UTC, not UTC ± some offset stuck > somewhere that keeps some form of running tally of the current leap > second offset since the epoch. Nope. UTC *includes* leap seconds already. It's UT1 that does not. Are you suggesting that NTP timekeeping should be based on UT1? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274