Richard Thomas wrote: > On Dec 20, 2016, at 9:32 PM, Steve Summit <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been working -- painfully slowly -- on some kernel mods > > which keep true UTC in the kernel (accepting it from NTP), and do > > the smearing when user mode code asks for a time_t. > > Why not keep the system clock in TAI and fudge for UTC (smeared or not) > only when there is a user request?
That's an option, too. The primary objection is that it's somewhat harder to do right if you might not have proper TAI-UTC information available immediately at boot time. But it's an option I plan to explore after I get true-UTC working. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
