I recently asked a linux box and a mac to use a hacked instance of the tz (zoneinfo) leapseconds file. The results are at the end of
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/right+gps.html In short, both systems behaved as expected. As a normal user, without any sysadmin privs, the two systems used the uniform input time from NTP and produced a zone time that showed a leap second. At the same time they showed the difference to GPS time increasing from 15 seconds to 16 seconds. This is something that any programmer can use as a test over and over without special hardware. So for anyone who has ever wanted to try being Daniel Gambis of the IERS and declare a leap second, see the web page for the recipe. -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
