Hello:

Attached is a patch file leap_seconds.patch against util-linux-2.22.2
that allows leap seconds to be included in hwclock --show or --hctosys. 
The current code uses the default UTC zonefile in reading the hardware
RTC with mktime().  This zonefile usually does not include leap
seconds.  As of this date there have been a total of 25 leap seconds
added since the epoch (start of 1970).  This is particularly a problem
for systems using ntp to maintain their system clocks because ntp does
take leap seconds into account.  A user can specify a leap-second-aware
zonefile via /etc/localtime.  By defining the environment variable
TZUTC, mktime() can be induced to use a matching UTC zonefile that
includes leap seconds.  The default behavior (TZUTC undefined) is
unchanged.

Regards,

Joseph Parmelee
jparmele at wildbear.com