I do not have a solution to your question, but in general there has been some discussion in the press [UK] of late that covered this very issue. The link has some further links that may lead you to your answer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20051124.shtml stu On 25/12/05, Jonathan A. Kollasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:33:26PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > > There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 & 060101 000000 . > > Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? > > Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast > > & adjust over a few hours or does something else alert it to correct things > > ? > > If the former, it could create problems for those running experiments; > > if the latter, does anyone know how it is done ? > > The last leap second was 1998/9 , before NTP was widely used. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Unix_time > > These _might_ help you understand this confusing subject. For me > they just gave me a headache. The best I can tell POSIX handling > of time-keeping is just broken. In short, don't worry too much > about it. If you really want to know what time it is use GPS time > (a sane TAI-based system), then convert that to UTC. > > Jonathan Kollasch > > > -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
