[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 34, Issue 8

[Magnus Danielson]

M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <13205C286662DE4387D9AF3AC30EF456AFA8697A05 at EMBX01-WF.jnpr.net>

>             Jonathan Natale <jnatale at juniper.net> writes:

> : AFAIK, routers also just re-sych.  The OS's are not capable of

> : xx:xx:60 time.  For reading router logs this is fine in most cases

> : which is all NTP is really for.  I don't think they simply step the

> : time, I am pretty sure they do tweak the freq.  I could be wrong and

> : I am NOT representing Juniper here, just my thoughts. :-)

> 

> FreeBSD will cope with the xx:xx:60 second correctly, assuming it is

> told about the leapsecond soon enough.  Not all other parts of the

> system can cope with the xx:xx:60, but that's a posix time_t

> limitation that you can't do anything about[*].

> 

> Warner

> 

> [*] The 'right' timezone files attempt to do things correctly, but in

> doing so they break time_t definition...


I assumed you meant to say that it breaks the POSIX time_t definition.

Cheers,
Magnus