[LEAPSECS] Coding this week, and a trick for timeouts over leap seconds.

[Zefram]

Hal Murray wrote:

>  run a program to tell the kernel leap-tonight


$ /sbin/adjtimex -S 17   # STA_PLL|STA_INS


>  run a program to tell the kernel no-leap


$ /sbin/adjtimex -S 65   # STA_PLL|STA_UNSYNC

This, together with some clock stepping so that I didn't need to wait
for actual midnight, was how I tested my clock display program for
leap seconds.  The STA_ constants come from /usr/include/sys/timex.h.

-zefram