Re: Seeking clarifaction of tai64nlocal and leap seconds
Brian Reichert <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:19:05 -0400
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On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:10:26PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote: > [Moving to the libtai list, where this is more on topic.] Geez, I shoulda guessed that. Ah, well... > Brian Reichert <[email protected]> wrote: > > This sentence to me implies: > > > > If you have both right/US/Pacific and US/Pacific timezones, then > > > > - right/US/Pacific has the leap seconds included > > > > - and hence should be twentyish seconds 'ahead' of US/Pacific. > > It's actually that right/US/Pacific assumes that *values returned by > time()* include leap seconds, and US/Pacific assumes that those values > don't include leap seconds. So if you interpret the same time() value > using each of those timezones, the right/ one will report an *earlier* > time. Ok, that does explain what I was seeing. Thaks for clearing up my confusion. > paul -- Brian Reichert <[email protected]> BSD admin/developer at large