On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 09:50:10 +0100, Richard Melville
wrote:
> Slightly off topic: can anybody say how much of the post title has to
> change before it's considered a different thread. I ask this because I
> noticed right at the beginning that I had misspelt "discrepancy". I
> didn't want to cha
Richard Melville wrote:
> I always thought that GMT and UTC were much the same, and that it was
> a French plot to wrest control of "time" from us :-)
It's true that if the leap seconds are abolished the Greenwich meridian
is over Paris in less than one thousand years...
Pierre
--
http://linux
>
> To be short, UTC is based on atomic clocks. Because the earth revolution
> speed varies (it always decreased till 1970), in UTC time the 0?
> meridian (solar time) tends to drift East. The leap seconds are added to
> UTC to keep the 0? meridian at Greenwich.
>
> In the regions where the legal t
Richard Melville wrote:
>
>
>
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > I suppose we can add that it can also cause problems due to
> inaccurate
> > time by omitting all leap seconds since 1970.
>
> The problem is limited to the regions having GMT as legal time (or
> BST=GMT+1).
>
> Pier
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > I suppose we can add that it can also cause problems due to inaccurate
> > time by omitting all leap seconds since 1970.
>
> The problem is limited to the regions having GMT as legal time (or
> BST=GMT+1).
>
> Pierre
>
That's interesting; why is that?
Richard
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I suppose we can add that it can also cause problems due to inaccurate
> time by omitting all leap seconds since 1970.
The problem is limited to the regions having GMT as legal time (or
BST=GMT+1).
Pierre
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Richard Melville wrote:
> Maybe it's worth removing the advice from Chapter 6.9 of the LFS book
> regarding the "posix" and "right" directories. I know the advice comes
> with a rider but it's clear to me that omitting those directories can cause
> serious problems.
I suppose we can add that it
> I don't appear to have either the "posix" directory or the "right"
> > directory.
> > As I was building a stripped-down system I must have followed the
> > suggestion to
> > omit them, and now, maybe, this has come back to bite me. I'm
> > assuming that I can install them now.
>
> Yep, that's yo
On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 10:01 +0100, Richard Melville wrote:
> I don't appear to have either the "posix" directory or the "right"
> directory.
> As I was building a stripped-down system I must have followed the
> suggestion to
> omit them, and now, maybe, this has come back to bite me. I'm
> assum
>
> Richard Melville wrote:
> > +kvm02-vps.cleve 31.193.9.2 3 u17 1024 377 25.130 0.444 1.359
> > -mail1.ugh.no 87.195.109.207 3 u 759 1024 377 25.171 1.858 0.419
> > *sexrobot.omg.omg 103.7.151.4 2 u 1008 1024 377 20.553 -1.584 1.428
> > +hemel-hempstead 140.203.204.77 2
Richard Melville wrote:
> +kvm02-vps.cleve 31.193.9.2 3 u17 1024 377 25.130 0.444 1.359
> -mail1.ugh.no 87.195.109.207 3 u 759 1024 377 25.171 1.858 0.419
> *sexrobot.omg.omg 103.7.151.4 2 u 1008 1024 377 20.553 -1.584 1.428
> +hemel-hempstead 140.203.204.77 2 u 60m 1024
>
> Richard Melville wrote:
> > Can anybody explain why this is happening; I'm getting some software
> > failing on time/date issues and I think it might be due to this:-
> >
> > date && date -u returns:-
> >
> > Tue 1 Oct 17:16:01 BST 2013
> > Tue 1 Oct 16:16:26 UTC 2013
> >
> > As you can see ins
Richard Melville wrote:
> Can anybody explain why this is happening; I'm getting some software
> failing on time/date issues and I think it might be due to this:-
>
> date && date -u returns:-
>
> Tue 1 Oct 17:16:01 BST 2013
> Tue 1 Oct 16:16:26 UTC 2013
>
> As you can see instead of a one hour di
Richard Melville wrote:
> Can anybody explain why this is happening; I'm getting some software
> failing on time/date issues and I think it might be due to this:-
>
> date && date -u returns:-
>
> Tue 1 Oct 17:16:01 BST 2013
> Tue 1 Oct 16:16:26 UTC 2013
>
> As you can see instead of a one hour dif
Can anybody explain why this is happening; I'm getting some software
failing on time/date issues and I think it might be due to this:-
date && date -u returns:-
Tue 1 Oct 17:16:01 BST 2013
Tue 1 Oct 16:16:26 UTC 2013
As you can see instead of a one hour difference I'm getting one hour and 25
sec
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