Re: [LEAPSECS] Introduction of long term scheduling

From: Tony Finch <dot_at_DOTAT.AT>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 18:04:07 +0000

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, the kernel has to have a notion of time stepping around
> a leap-second if it implements ntp.

Surely ntpd could be altered to isolate the kernel from ntp's broken
timescale (assuming the kernel has an atomic seconds count timescale)

Tony.
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