Re: TAI and qmail

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:28:52 -0400

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Jan Pisacka <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> It seems that qmail-queue contains its own implementation of gmtime()
>> (datetime_tai()) which makes no use of $TZ or /etc/localtime - it
>> always assumes the system clock does not count leap seconds.
...
> However, if this behaviour has not been observed before, I suppose
> that the shortcoming is not in the original DJB qmail-1.03 version.

I see the same difference on my system, and I see datetime_tai in the
original sources; I don't use Bruce Guenter's patches.

> Maybe I should rather try to bother the people at the Qmail mailing list,
> but they might have no interest in libtai?

Maybe.


paul