F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

Tue Jul 3 08:54:12 UTC 2012

Steven Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu> writes:
> See
> http://landslidecoding.blogspot.com/2012/07/linuxs-leap-second-deadlocks.html

Maybe we should stop wrenching the poor system time back and forth.  We
no longer add or subtract daylight savings time (or timezones) to the
kernel time, why do we do it with leapseconds?  We should really move
the leapseconds correction into the display routines like DST and
timezones already are.  I believe the Olson time code already has ifdefs
for doing this.  I wonder why the system's internal time isn't run that
way.

-wolfgang
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