On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:28:29PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> > While its possible to smooth out the leapsecond (which would be useful
> > to many folks), the problem is one's system would then diverge from UTC
> > for that leapsecond.
>
> The Posix-mandated behaviour *requires* diverging from UTC for some
> time period around the leap second. All you can do is decide how
> to schedule the divergence.
POSIX mandates this for gettimeofday() and CLOCK_REALTIME.
However, a conforming implementation, could (either in userspace or in
the kernel) provide access to other time bases, include TAI or the
proposed UTS time scales.
- Ted
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