On 06/05/2015 05:04 AM, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:29:13AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> That leaves the question; for who is this exact second edge important? > > Distributed applications using the UTC time scale. > > Many control applications are done with a 1 millisecond period. > Having the time wrong by a second for 10 or 100 loops is bad news. >
Anything starting @ UTC midnight (I think that would be Beijing, China?) ... being one second off is not good. P. > Thanks, > Richard > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
