[2266] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: leap seconds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Eichin)
Fri Feb 21 19:02:16 1997
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>, krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Mark Eichin <eichin@MIT.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 1997 19:00:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o"'s message of Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:59:08 -0500
> seconds. He listed two reasons: first of all, none of the other Unix
> systems are doing it, and being an outlier is going to cause all
> sorts
I'm pretty sure NetBSD *did* support them once, but it appears that
they don't currently. Perhaps we should find out why...
> The second reason is that while we know where all of the leap seconds
> that has happened in the past, we can't predict when the International
True, but a spurious argument. The *exact* same is true of
TimeZones... which is why it's solved in the same place, config files
that are read at runtime. Also, like timezones, the changes are known
at least 6 months in advance.
