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Re: Leap Second planned for 2016
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:12:29 -0400
On Sat, 09 Jul 2016 12:14:03 +0300, Saku Ytti said:
Check the implementation on your PC. This is why code is broken and people don't even know it's broken. You have to use monotonic time to measure passage of time, which is not particularly easy to do portable, in some languages.
It doesn't help that the POSIX standard doesn't represent leap seconds anyplace, so any elapsed time calculation that crosses a leap second is guaranteed to be wrong....
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- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Eric S. Raymond (Jul 09)
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- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Saku Ytti (Jul 09)
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- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Jared Mauch (Jul 08)
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- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 09)
- RE: Leap Second planned for 2016 Keith Medcalf (Jul 09)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Saku Ytti (Jul 10)
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