Re: clockspeed and system time

Lloyd Zusman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Therefore, it appears that I don't need the "right" settings in order
> for my system times to always show up correctly.  How could this be?

Use of a right/ timezone should correspond with the existence of
/etc/leapsecs.dat.  If you have /etc/leapsecs.dat, then clockspeed
will give you a TAI clock, and you should use a right/ timezone to
properly interpret the results of time().  If you don't have
/etc/leapsecs.dat, then clockspeed will give you a POSIX clock (and it
will get confused if a leap second happens), and you should use a
non-right/ timezone to properly interpret time().

If you use right/ but don't have /etc/leapsecs.dat, or vice versa,
then you're inconsistent and you'll see a 22 second offset one way or
the other.


paul