[LEAPSECS] be your own pontifex maximus

[Steve Allen]

I recently asked a linux box and a mac to use a hacked instance of
the tz (zoneinfo) leapseconds file.  The results are at the end of

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/right+gps.html

In short, both systems behaved as expected.  As a normal user, without
any sysadmin privs, the two systems used the uniform input time from
NTP and produced a zone time that showed a leap second.  At the same
time they showed the difference to GPS time increasing from 15 seconds
to 16 seconds.  This is something that any programmer can use as a test
over and over without special hardware.

So for anyone who has ever wanted to try being Daniel Gambis of the
IERS and declare a leap second, see the web page for the recipe.

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