Hi there
unruh wrote:
Not sure what you are saying. "it does"-- what does? And what does
'right' mean here.
'right' is just a directory name. 'it does' means the file contains leap
second info;
file /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Europe/Amsterdam
/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Europe/Amsterdam: timezone data, version 2, 13
gmt time flags, 13 std time flags, no leap seconds, 180 transition
times, 13 abbreviation chars
file /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Amsterdam
/usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Amsterdam: timezone data, version 2, 13
gmt time flags, 13 std time flags, 24 leap seconds, 180 transition
times, 13 abbreviation chars
I have no idea how to extract leap second info from this file.
Does ntpd actually use files from the /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/ tree?
I'm used to files like leap-seconds.3427142400.
If you want to run the French Revolutionary time, 100sec/min, 100min/hr,
10 hr/day, etc, go ahead.
Months in alphabetical order would be nice.
That you will be out of step with everyone
else is your problem. All I am saying is the "announcement" that a leap
second will occur 6 months from now gives you and everyone else lots of
time to plan for it. And the txdata2012a will contain the information
necessary for making those plans, whatever they are.
ntpd is a way of synchronizing your clock with everyone else's. That is
all. What you do with that information is up to you. If you want your
machine to add 35 sec to the time it reads from the computer clock, use
the leapseconds file to do that, just as you now use the zoneinfo file
to translate your machine's UTC to the time you actually live by,
including daylight savings. If you want your machine time to be on TAI,
you will have to find some ntp server somewhere that is also on TAI to
synchronize to. That that might be hard is just the price you pay for
being out of step with everyone else. It is only someone who is crazy
who says that when they are out of step with everyone else, it is
everyone else that should change to get into step with them.
It would have to be implemented in a way that makes sense. A new
standard perhaps. Is anyone into this sort of thing?
Regards,
Rob
--
Wim T. Schippers for president
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Universiteit_Twente_Verzonken_Torentje_van_Drienerlo.jpg
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