On Dec 13, 2005, at 18:38, George Anzinger wrote:
I think that there is a miss understanding here. The kernel
timers, at this time, do not know or care about daylight savings
time. This is not really a clock set but a time zone change which
does not intrude on the kernels notion of time (that being, more or
less UTC).
One question I have right now is: How does the kernel treat time
slewing? Sometimes I might want to say: "The clock has continuous
error and measures 24hours and 2 seconds for every 24 hours of real
time", in which case the monotonic time should be slewed -2sec/
24hours. On the other hand, I might also want to say: "The clock has
fixed error and is 2 hours ahead cause some dummy messed up the
time", so I'm going to fix this over the next 2 weeks by slewing
backwards 1 hour per 7 days, in which case I do _not_ want the
monotonic time to be affected (I'm passing 2 days, not 1 day and 22
hours). How does the kernel handle this? I've never seen any good
description of the NTP and time-control APIs; if there is one out
there (that's not 42 pages of dry standard), I would love a link.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
--
If you don't believe that a case based on [nothing] could potentially
drag on in court for _years_, then you have no business playing with
the legal system at all.
-- Rob Landley
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