Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757994AbZADX2G (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:28:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752050AbZADX1y (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:27:54 -0500 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:48857 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750929AbZADX1y (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:27:54 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:29:40 -0800 (PST) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: David Newall cc: Kyle Moffett , Ben Goodger , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linasvepstas@gmail.com, "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" , MentalMooMan , Travis Crump , burdell@iruntheinter.net Subject: Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009 In-Reply-To: <4961432A.80509@davidnewall.com> Message-ID: References: <3ae3aa420901021125n1153053fsdf2378e7d11abbc0@mail.gmail.com> <20090102210430.49649261@diego-desktop> <495E7849.4030706@shaw.ca> <495F0672.6020708@davidnewall.com> <8752a8760901022237r75d408b3i74c703c8ac2d4597@mail.gmail.com> <496076A9.7030907@davidnewall.com> <4960897D.5030603@davidnewall.com> <4961432A.80509@davidnewall.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1007 Lines: 23 On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, David Newall wrote: > david@lang.hm wrote: >> so are you saying that other 'correct' OS's have patches issued every >> time a leap second is declared so that they have an in-kernel table of >> them to use to calculate the correct time? > > No. Exactly the contrary. I'm saying that through use of zoneinfo, for > example, no kernel support is required for leap seconds. And! this > provides correct results for seconds-between two dates. then new zoneinfo files need to be sent out every time there is a leap second (which from other posts on this thread is potentially every month) and if it is something to be fixed in zoneinfo, then complaining to the kernel list and demanding that 'Linux be fixed' is not productive. David Lang -- 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/