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Message-ID: <5227BC71.6000907@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:04:17 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kumar Sundararajan <kumar@...com>
Subject: Re: clock_gettime_ns
On 09/04/2013 03:59 PM, John Stultz wrote:
>
> Also, there's been talk of a slewed-leap-second clockid, basically UTC
> but around the leapsecond it slows down to absorb the extra second. This
> means that clockid would have a subsecond offset from TAI.
>
Most of what I have heard seem to center around abolishing leap seconds
entirely. Now, I know that some users do slewed leap seconds as a
unofficial policy to avoid rare events.
-hpa
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