[181422] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Jun 23 22:02:59 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:02:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1Z7Anm-000LpU-1L@stenn.ntp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harlan Stenn" <stenn@ntp.org>
> > You misunderstand the problem. :) The problem is not "clock skips
> > backward one second," because most of the time that's not what
> > happens. The problem is that most software does not handle it well
> > when the clock ticks ... :59 :60 :00 instead of ticking directly
> > from
> > :59 to :00.
>
> POSIX NEVER shows :60.
Then I hope POSIX does not claim to represent UTC, because UTC does, no?
(IE: somewhere between "a bit" and "a lot" more expansion was called for
there; most of us don't have ntp.org email addresses. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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