Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759953Ab3IDXEa (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Sep 2013 19:04:30 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:60321 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752490Ab3IDXE2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Sep 2013 19:04:28 -0400 Message-ID: <5227BC71.6000907@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:04:17 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Stultz CC: Andy Lutomirski , Arun Sharma , LKML , Kumar Sundararajan Subject: Re: clock_gettime_ns References: <5226FAE1.5070201@fb.com> <52279E1D.3060907@linaro.org> <5227B432.8070205@zytor.com> <5227BB50.7000301@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <5227BB50.7000301@linaro.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 692 Lines: 19 On 09/04/2013 03:59 PM, John Stultz wrote: > > Also, there's been talk of a slewed-leap-second clockid, basically UTC > but around the leapsecond it slows down to absorb the extra second. This > means that clockid would have a subsecond offset from TAI. > Most of what I have heard seem to center around abolishing leap seconds entirely. Now, I know that some users do slewed leap seconds as a unofficial policy to avoid rare events. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/