Re: [LEAPSECS] Introduction of long term scheduling

From: Tony Finch <dot_at_dotat.at>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 03:08:11 +0000

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
>
> Presumably it only needs to know the next leap-second to do this, not
> the whole known table?

Kernels sometimes need to deal with historical timestamps (principally
from the filesystem) so it'll need a full table to be able to convert
between POSIX time and atomic time for compatibility purposes.

Tony.

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