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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
