Return-Path: Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <153921-8316>; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 03:35:22 -0400 Received: from caffeine.ix.net.nz ([203.97.100.28]:4107 "EHLO caffeine.ix.net.nz" ident: "mail") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id <155207-8316>; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 01:25:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 20:00:32 +1200 From: Chris Wedgwood To: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: GPS Leap Second Scheduled! Message-ID: <19980909200032.B13292@caffeine.ix.net.nz> References: <299BBE59294E@rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> <98090822315400.00819@soda> <6t4ju3$gve$1@palladium.transmeta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.5i In-Reply-To: <6t4ju3$gve$1@palladium.transmeta.com>; from H. Peter Anvin on Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 12:59:47AM +0000 X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Content-Length: 460 Lines: 18 On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 12:59:47AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > The way xntp deals with leap seconds is it lets the epoch float... > i.e. it holds time_t to the same value for two seconds. Cool... so 1970 becomes even longer ago that I would have assumed then? -cw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/faq.html