[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 34, Issue 8

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <13205C286662DE4387D9AF3AC30EF456AFA8697A05 at EMBX01-WF.jnpr.net>
            Jonathan Natale <jnatale at juniper.net> writes:

: AFAIK, routers also just re-sych.  The OS's are not capable of

: xx:xx:60 time.  For reading router logs this is fine in most cases

: which is all NTP is really for.  I don't think they simply step the

: time, I am pretty sure they do tweak the freq.  I could be wrong and

: I am NOT representing Juniper here, just my thoughts. :-)


FreeBSD will cope with the xx:xx:60 second correctly, assuming it is
told about the leapsecond soon enough.  Not all other parts of the
system can cope with the xx:xx:60, but that's a posix time_t
limitation that you can't do anything about[*].

Warner

[*] The 'right' timezone files attempt to do things correctly, but in
doing so they break time_t definition...