Re: TAI and dietlibc

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:40:14 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.libtai
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
Message-ID <[email protected]>
hleil liu <[email protected]> wrote:
> In http://multivac.cwru.edu/spf/#dietlibc,you say" I don't use
> dietlibc because it doesn't allow the system clock to be TAI.",could
> you give some details?

dietlibc's time functions interpret the system clock as a POSIX clock;
i.e., they assume it does not include leap seconds.  They do not
support right/ timezones.  I might try to make a patch to make the
Olson library a compile-time option, but it's not a high priority for
me.


paul