Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009

Alan Cox
2009-01-05T00:41:46Z

> zoneinfo. Epoch remains the start of 1978; seconds between any two
> dates included leap-seconds and no special kernel support is required.

Your time() values then disagree with the rest of the universe. See POSIX
1003.1 Annex B 2.2.2. if you want the whole story,

For any given time based on the 1970 Epoch there is a single correct
answer for the translation between each value and a UTC time.