Re: GPS Leap Second Scheduled!

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 17:47:50 -0300

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In message <19980909200032.B13292@caffeine.ix.net.nz>, Chris Wedgwood writes:
+-----
| 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?
+--->8

That's the only semi-reasonable (I stress *semi-*) interpretation one can
give to the current standard. The other possibilities are worse.

-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university

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