Re: GPS Leap Second Scheduled!

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 20:00:32 +1200


On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 12:59:47AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> The way xntp deals with leap seconds is it lets the epoch float...
> i.e. it holds time_t to the same value for two seconds.

Cool... so 1970 becomes even longer ago that I would have assumed
then?

-cw

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