In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >: In message <005f01c22dd1$7be7d180$0300a8c0@fivehundred>, "Andrei Cojocaru" writ >: es: >: >I am already synchronizing using xntp, that's not the problem. The >: >problem is by some weird way the clock got out of sync by about 1hr >: >during daylight switch on one of the computers I run, and I need a >: >reliable way to get passage of time (I don't need date/time, just >: >the passage of it) for different internal operations in the program. >: >: Use UTC time, it has no daylight savings problems. > >Just stupid leap-seconds :-(
Well, I have already sent comments to the latest IERS questionaire telling them how ugly we think those are. Unless we want to deal properly with leapseconds and implement TAI, we have no choice in that matter. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message