On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:44:18PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > What isn't clear (form the associated standards) is what you should do > to the system clock at the point the leap second is added/subtracted. > (Due to variations in the moment of intertia of the earth there > have been seconds added aas well as subtracted, even though the earth's > rotation is slowing down because the moon keeps stealing angular > momentum from it.)
Well, if your system clock keeps proper time as measured in seconds since the epoch in UTC :), you don't need to do anything to the system clock; the leap seconds should then be applied when displaying time in the local time zone. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
