On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
> OSes usually deal with timestamps all the time for various things. To
> find out how much CPU to bill a process, to more mondane things.
> Having to do all these gymnastics is going to hurt performance.
That's why leap second handling should be done in userland as part of the
conversion from clock (scalar) time to civil (broken-down) time.
Tony.
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Received on Sat Jan 06 2007 - 10:29:23 PST