On 2012-01-06, Rob van der Putten <r...@sput.nl> wrote: > Hi there > > > unruh wrote: > >> Do not work what way? > > What I meant was that it would be nice to run TAI instead of UTC. > >> It is announced now, it occurs Jun 30. >> The tzdata database contains a file called "leapseconds" which contains >> all of the leapseconds which have occured or are know to occur in the >> future. > > In 'right' (based on the International Atomic Time) it does, in 'posix' > (based on the Coordinated Universal Time) it doesn't. > Does anyone use 'right'? Is this supported by NTPD?
Not sure what you are saying. "it does"-- what does? And what does 'right' mean here. If you want to run the French Revolutionary time, 100sec/min, 100min/hr, 10 hr/day, etc, go ahead. That you will be out of step with everyone else is your problem. All I am saying is the "announcement" that a leap second will occur 6 months from now gives you and everyone else lots of time to plan for it. And the txdata2012a will contain the information necessary for making those plans, whatever they are. ntpd is a way of synchronizing your clock with everyone else's. That is all. What you do with that information is up to you. If you want your machine to add 35 sec to the time it reads from the computer clock, use the leapseconds file to do that, just as you now use the zoneinfo file to translate your machine's UTC to the time you actually live by, including daylight savings. If you want your machine time to be on TAI, you will have to find some ntp server somewhere that is also on TAI to synchronize to. That that might be hard is just the price you pay for being out of step with everyone else. It is only someone who is crazy who says that when they are out of step with everyone else, it is everyone else that should change to get into step with them. > > > Regards, > Rob _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
