On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 09:10:46PM +0100, John Winters wrote: || In fact, we don't jump the clock by an hour at all. The time || remains exactly the same before and after the entry to DST - all || that changes is the representation. If it was, say 0359Z at 1 || minute before you enter DST, then it will be 0401Z at 1 minute || afterwards. Further, two separate users could be logged on to the || same computer with one of them seeing a time change and the other || not. || || For this reason, the processing for a leap second is fundamentally || different from that for DST.
But it would have been the same if NTP were based on TAI, and leap seconds were distributed in the same way as the time zone rules. One can dream. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije <[email protected]> | "If you're flamed in a group you <http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/> | don't read, does anybody get burnt?" [Xhost should be taken out and shot] | -- Paul Tomblin on a.s.r.
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