On 1/11/2015 11:32 PM, brian utterback wrote:
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".
Perhaps you're unaware that POSIX isn't the One True Operating System
specification.
"Properly implements" means it follows the well defined, 40 year old
normative specification for handling leap seconds, which requires
supporting minutes with 59 or 61 seconds. That's something POSIX doesn't
properly implement.
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