On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:58:27PM +0100, Bjjjrn Gabrielsson wrote: > UTC<-> Localtime is not affected by leapseconds. GPS time <-> UTC is the > relationship that is affected. Your typical (unix) computer will always > run its local clock in UTC.
Out of interest; why are timezone files on unix systems[1,2] specified to contain information about leapseconds if they're not intended to be used? I'm assuming that it's something like they were added before somebody realized the shortcomings of that approach, but pointers would be appreciated! Sam [1] http://linux.die.net/man/8/zdump [2] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/tzfile.5.html _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
