[LEAPSECS] Leap second smearing test results

[Steve Summit]

Richard Thomas wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2016, at 9:32 PM, Steve Summit <scs+ls at eskimo.com> wrote:
> > I've been working -- painfully slowly -- on some kernel mods
> > which keep true UTC in the kernel (accepting it from NTP), and do
> > the smearing when user mode code asks for a time_t.
>
> Why not keep the system clock in TAI and fudge for UTC (smeared or not)
> only when there is a user request?

That's an option, too.  The primary objection is that it's
somewhat harder to do right if you might not have proper TAI-UTC
information available immediately at boot time.

But it's an option I plan to explore after I get true-UTC working.