[LEAPSECS] Embedded software

[Hal Murray]

> All the embedded gear I've done runs on UTC. But it also has requirements

> for 'cold start' that are incompatible with GPS and couldn't be met if the

> system had been off across a leap second.  It didn't deal with localtime, so

> DST insanity didn't matter so much... 


I can't quite figure out what that means.

Where did it get leap-seconds info in the normal case?

Was there a battery backed TOY/RTC?  They typically have some (battery 
backed) RAM on the same chip.  Could you have stored the leap info there?



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