----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <wolfgang.ruppre...@gmail.com>
> Maybe we should stop wrenching the poor system time back and forth. We > no longer add or subtract daylight savings time (or timezones) to the > kernel time, why do we do it with leapseconds? We should really move > the leapseconds correction into the display routines like DST and > timezones already are. I believe the Olson time code already has ifdefs > for doing this. I wonder why the system's internal time isn't run that > way. I cannot tell you how (literally) shocked I was, to learn from John Stull (at IBM, the first guy, apparently, to locate the current screwup and create kernel patches for it) that *the kernel gets this so wrong*. It's so off that I wasn't sure I was interpreting the situation properly until you posted this. This pain should have been undergone at least 15 years ago; 235960 is a perfectly valid timestamp; ISO8601 says so. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
