F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Tue Jul 3 14:33:21 UTC 2012


On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:31:03 +0300, Saku Ytti said:

> Yes. TAI time natively and presentation uses leap lookup tables to convert
> to UTC.

On the other hand, how many subtle bugs will we introduce when we break
code that currently assumes the system clock is UTC, not TAI?
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