Re: Y2K

Marsh Ray (marsh_lin@ad-hoc.gainesville.fl.us)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:44:10 -0400

From: Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com>
>The whole yy:mm:dd:hh:mm:ss ball of wax must be synchronous. At
>last reading, this was done by "Convention", i.e., international
>agreement. The drift of Earth time from Celestial time is periodically
>taken out by leap-seconds.

I'm curious: How does the Kernel handle the leap-second? Does it
record a minute with 61 seconds somewhere? If so, doesn't it
break programs which count on (SECONDS_PER_MINUTE == 60)?

Or does something like ntpd spread that leap second out over
some period of time? Is there some "Convention" of the rate
to re-adjust?

- Marsh

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