Proposal for new ISO C 9x time API

Bradley White bww at fore.com
Sat Oct 10 15:31:04 UTC 1998


>                                                     Ever watched xntpd
> try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.

NTP on an "Olson-right" system, with the addition of a single time2posix()
call, sails smoothly through a leap second by ignoring the leap warning
indicator and all its convoluted logic.



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