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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: george@mvista.com
Cc: linux@horizon.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: NTP leap second question
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:23:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126920192.22339.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <432B3FEB.1070303@mvista.com>

On Gwe, 2005-09-16 at 14:58 -0700, George Anzinger wrote:
> What I am asking is when is the flag sent to the kernel.  My reading of 
> the kernel code says that it will insert the second on the second roll 
> immeadiatly after the flag is set.

Kernel clock ticks are not adjusted or slewed or anything else for a
leap second when correctly configured. UTC leap second adjustment is
performed by glibc for locales that expect it (which I think is all of
them)

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-17  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-14 22:20 NTP leap second question linux
2005-09-16 21:58 ` George Anzinger
2005-09-17  1:23   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-09-17  1:05     ` George Anzinger
2005-09-17  1:53       ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-14 17:48 [RFC][PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup (v. A1) john stultz
2005-09-14 17:53 ` john stultz
2005-09-14 18:39   ` NTP leap second question George Anzinger
2005-09-14 18:54     ` john stultz
2005-09-15  6:49       ` Ulrich Windl
2005-09-15 17:21         ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-15 18:35           ` Alan Cox

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