> All the embedded gear I've done runs on UTC. But it also has requirements > for 'cold start' that are incompatible with GPS and couldn't be met if the > system had been off across a leap second. It didn't deal with localtime, so > DST insanity didn't matter so much...
I can't quite figure out what that means. Where did it get leap-seconds info in the normal case? Was there a battery backed TOY/RTC? They typically have some (battery backed) RAM on the same chip. Could you have stored the leap info there? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
