On 1/11/2015 9:44 PM, Mike S wrote: > On 1/11/2015 7:16 PM, William Unruh wrote: >> If that public source is responsible it will pass on to your >> system the fact that there is a leapsecond, and your system will "stop" >> for a second at the last second of June. > > A system which properly implements leap seconds will do no such thing. > It will properly account for a minute with 61 seconds, and will tick > from 23:59:59 to 23:59:60 then to 00:00:00. > > There is no "stopping," or any other discontinuity. >
Not true. That would violate POSIX. There is no "properly implements", or "right thing". There is only "best of a bad lot", and depends on your goals. There is no solution that meets all possible goals in this regard. -- Brian Utterback Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
