Re: localtime()

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Laurent Bercot wrote:

>  Correct time handling under Unix is a mess.

I know, I fixed that stuff for MirBSD after all ;-)
but gave up using right/ timezones under GNU/Linux,
mostly because patches to eg. OpenNTPD are required
(OTOH now I’m a DD I could do that…).

>  What is this thing about German law ?

German law requires leap seconds to be counted.

> means the system clock should be set to TAI-10, not UTC.

Calling a seconds-since-some-epoch value UTC is a
misnomer IMO, as UTC is a wallclock “unit”. But yes,
with right/ timezones, the kernel time must count
leap seconds, and things like OpenNTPD/rdate need
to know it. (Also, please avoid writing TAI because
of the possible confusion with DJB’s tai64_t which
has a bias of 2³⁰.)

bye,
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