[154367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Tue Jul 3 05:32:00 2012
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:31:03 +0300
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <878vf1i5sb.fsf@arbol.wsrcc.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On (2012-07-03 01:54 -0700), Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> kernel time, why do we do it with leapseconds? We should really move
> the leapseconds correction into the display routines like DST and
Yes. TAI time natively and presentation uses leap lookup tables to convert
to UTC.
Unixtime is not monotonously increasing which is incredibly broken by
design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unixtime#TAI-based_variant
http://cr.yp.to/libtai.html
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