[ntp:questions] Why can't clocks do inital synchronization?
David J Taylor
david-taylor at blueyonder.neither-this-bit.nor-this-bit.co.uk
Thu Jan 8 06:41:16 UTC 2009
Unruh wrote:
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> Of course if the unix system time were TAI then the leapsecond issue
> would not arise as far as the kernel were concerned. It would be
> cleaner to have the kernel on TAI and the translation to user space
> time via zoneinfo using a leapseconds file.
I don't like that idea, initially, but I /can/ see the sense in it. Are
any of the major UNIXes considering a similar change?
David
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