[154369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Jul 3 07:07:21 2012
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:06:15 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <wolfgang.rupprecht@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <878vf1i5sb.fsf@arbol.wsrcc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder why the system's internal time isn't run that way.
For compatibility with software that does time calculations without using
the crappy libc time API.
Tony.
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