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From: Chris Wedgwood <chris@cybernet.co.nz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: GPS Leap Second Scheduled!
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 20:00:32 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980909200032.B13292@caffeine.ix.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6t4ju3$gve$1@palladium.transmeta.com>; from H. Peter Anvin on Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 12:59:47AM +0000

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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  reply	other threads:[~1998-09-09  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <299BBE59294E@rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
     [not found] ` <98090822315400.00819@soda>
1998-09-09  0:59   ` GPS Leap Second Scheduled! H. Peter Anvin
1998-09-09  8:00     ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
     [not found]       ` <199809092149.RAA06993@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu>
1998-09-10  1:37         ` H. Peter Anvin
1998-09-10 15:05           ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
1998-09-12 19:57           ` Feuer
1998-09-09 16:35   ` David Lang
1998-09-09  4:46 Colin Plumb
1998-09-09 19:08 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-09-09 20:13 Colin Plumb
1998-09-09 23:45 ` Chris Wedgwood
1998-09-09 23:55   ` Chris Wedgwood
1998-09-10  8:36   ` Rogier Wolff
1998-09-10 17:05     ` Oliver Xymoron
1998-09-10 22:02       ` Ryan Moore
     [not found] <no.id>
1998-09-10  6:34 ` Jamie Lokier
1998-09-11  6:18   ` Michael Shields
1998-09-11 22:49 Ethan O'Connor
     [not found] <19980914165757.A17479@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
     [not found] ` <199809150603.XAA29073@cesium.transmeta.com>
     [not found]   ` <19980915100729.02790@albireo.ucw.cz>
     [not found]     ` <35FF1838.6E247F0C@his.com>
1998-09-17 11:51       ` Jan Echternach

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