Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750798AbVIQA7p (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:59:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750797AbVIQA7p (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:59:45 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:39405 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750798AbVIQA7o (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:59:44 -0400 Subject: Re: NTP leap second question From: Alan Cox To: george@mvista.com Cc: linux@horizon.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <432B3FEB.1070303@mvista.com> References: <20050914222003.23790.qmail@science.horizon.com> <432B3FEB.1070303@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:23:12 +0100 Message-Id: <1126920192.22339.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 17 On Gwe, 2005-09-16 at 14:58 -0700, George Anzinger wrote: > What I am asking is when is the flag sent to the kernel. My reading of > the kernel code says that it will insert the second on the second roll > immeadiatly after the flag is set. Kernel clock ticks are not adjusted or slewed or anything else for a leap second when correctly configured. UTC leap second adjustment is performed by glibc for locales that expect it (which I think is all of them) Alan - 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/