In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Bunclark writes:
>> And illegal on many systems, including all USGOV owned and operated >> systems. > >So would that mean that any USGOV owned and operated systems not running >NTP (Window boxes, for example), or those running NTP but are in the >middle of dealing with a leapsecond, are being illegally operated? > >How close to UTC do you have to be to be under the limit when the US Time >Police pull you in? That's the funny thing, isn't it ? As long as you run the system on the buggy POSIX definition of UTC, and that obviously entails using a UTC source as your reference, it doesn't matter how lousy your timekeeping is. But the second you use a non-UTC reference, your are in violation of FIPS151-2, even if that makes you more precise, timewise. As one of your supreme court judges said during arguments last year: words matter, especially in legal texts. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
