Re: [PATCH V8 02/13] ntp: add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit

Kuwahara,T.
2011-01-09T21:07:26Z

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Richard Cochran
<richardcochran-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> we want to be able to jump the clock arbitrarily.

Another problem remains: How do you deal with leap seconds? I mean,
given that 1 minute is not always 60 seconds, then what time was it
XXXXX seconds ago? Maybe some kind of lookup table is necessary, but
in such case, isn't it a better choice just to use the
clock_settime/settimeofday syscall?