[LEAPSECS] No leapseconds on trains

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Nov 17 16:38:56 EST 2011


In message <4EC575A7.20200 at ste-marie.org>, "Paul J. Ste. Marie" writes:

>On 11/17/2011 7:10 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp allegedly wrote:

>> Well, same situation as UNIX, Windows and pretty much any other

>> operating system in the world.

>

>Mainframe OS's (MVS, etc) handle leapseconds perfectly well.


Hence the "pretty much any", in addition to MVS, I only know one
other operating system which is configured to deal with leapseconds
by default.

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