In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t writes:
>
>
>Hi.
>
>I'm trying to figure out hte extent of LeapSecond support in the Gnu C 
>libraries.  In many places, the documentation includes phrases like "...if 
>LeapSecond support is enabled..."  but nowhere have I found documentation of 
>how to enable (or use) it, or how to determine whether support is enabled i
>n my distribution.
>
>Can anyone out there point me to some documentation?

The leapsecond support is not enabled by default because that would break POSIX.

I belive the common source of all this is something called "tzdata" from
Arthur David Olson, and the leapsecond support is a feature of that code.

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