Re: crond, hwclock, and clockspeed
[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:02:28 -0400
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Lloyd Zusman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm guessing that this is just some sort of idiosyncracy of Linux's > crond. Perhaps it tries to be smart about leap seconds itself, thereby > getting confused by the right/leapsecs.dat stuff ... ??? I would guess that it does date arithmetic by essentially reimplementing libc's localtime(), and assuming a POSIX clock. Other schedulers may not have the same problem. At least, mine doesn't. :) paul