In message: <4813.1245444...@critter.freebsd.dk>
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: In message <20090619.143448.2102305600....@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh"
writes
: :
: >In message: <4a3bf553.20...@rubidium.dyndns.org>
: > Magnus Danielson <mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org> writes:
: >: Have any of you seen the reported problems?
: >
: >"These counts started at 0 roughly at midnight UTC 6 Jan 1980"
: >
: >What does "roughly" mean here in this context?
:
: That the we have leap seconds.
But midnight UTC time on 6 Jan 1980 was exactly the same thing as
second 0 in GPS time.
Leap seconds, while an evil complication to UTC, don't enter the
synchronization point issue at all. It wasn't even Jan 1 when the
leap second might have happened... Hence my confusion...
Warner
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