[LEAPSECS] internet drafts about zoneinfo (POSIX Time)

[Tony Finch]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Joseph M Gwinn wrote:

>

> You are right that POSIX explicitly ignores leap seconds, as stated in the

> standard.  (In practice, if one uses NTP to synchronize to UTC, a

> POSIX-compliant computer will follow leap seconds more-or-less dutifully,

> never mind the standard.


Even in the latter situation, time_t doesn't count the leap seconds.
Unix systems that handle leap seconds have to do so using a side-band
such as the TIME_INS/TIME_OOP return values from ntp_gettime().

Tony.
-- 
f.anthony.n.finch  <dot at dotat.at>  http://dotat.at/
Rockall, Malin: West or southwest 6 to gale 8, occasionally severe gale 9.
Very rough or high, becoming very high for a time. Rain or squally wintry
showers. Moderate or poor.