Re: [LEAPSECS] The real problem with leap seconds

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:29:52 +0100

In message <E1Ew2R3-0002g7-00_at_mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk>, Markus Kuhn writes:

>and you still cannot even get it reliably from your
>average local NTP server.

This is a circular argument: The reason NTP doesn't provide it
is that time_t needs UTC.

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