[2269] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: leap seconds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Fri Feb 21 19:31:58 1997
To: Mark Eichin <eichin@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>, Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>,
krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "21 Feb 1997 19:00:35 -0500 ."
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 19:31:15 -0500
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
> I'm pretty sure NetBSD *did* support them once, but it appears that
> they don't currently.
> Perhaps we should find out why...
I looked at the NetBSD cvs logs; it was changed to omit leapseconds in
September 1993 by cgd; apparently POSIX specifies the
seconds-since-1970 to GMT civil-date conversion quite precisely to
*NOT* include leap seconds in the UNIX time..
% cvs log src/share/zoneinfo/Makefile
...
revision 1.8
date: 1993/09/02 01:10:03; author: cgd; state: Exp; lines: +3 -3
fix typo, and use "posix_only" rather than "right_only". everything
else in the world, i.e. other UNIX boxes, and WWV, are == "posix_only"
...
- Bill
