[2255] in Kerberos_V5_Development
leap seconds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Thu Feb 20 21:39:17 1997
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:38:44 -0500
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
To: krbdev@MIT.EDU
While investigating some ASN.1 test failures I ran into, and talking
to Mark and Marc, the question of leap seconds came up...
Is the ASN.1 representation intended to take leap seconds into
account? My freshly-updated Debian Linux box now appears to have a
gmtime that does so, and the tests fail.
I'm inclined to say, go with whatever the system gives us in gmtime,
and treat it as an N-second drift between clocks. Then all that needs
fixing is the expected results for any test that depends on this
behavior going one way or the other. Any other solution will require
replacing gmtime with a homebrew version, at least in one of the two
cases.
