On 01/28/2011 11:34, Gerard Ashton wrote:
Windows and Unix have general reputations of not doing it right; does anyone know of a hardware/operating system combination that handles leap seconds correctly? If so, does it have a defined approach to providing a quasi-UTC that hides leap seconds to applications that wish to live in blissful ignorance?
FreeBSD handles them correctly, within the bounds imposed by POSIX. For the traditional interface, we repeat the last second of the day (since POSIX is silent/ambiguous on what the right behavior is during a leap second). For the NTP interface, we publish the right bits of data so that people can know a leap second is happening, if they want.
Of course the phrase 'within the bounds imposed by POSIX' is a huge weasel phrase, sucking all the meaning out of the word correct for many people...
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