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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:54:59 -0400
On Jul 3, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Peter Lothberg wrote:
On one of my BSD boxes. /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds, I see no "-"
No, but they're allowed; see Figure 9 of RFC 5905: LI Leap Indicator (leap): 2-bit integer warning of an impending leap second to be inserted or deleted in the last minute of the current month with values defined in Figure 9. +-------+----------------------------------------+ | Value | Meaning | +-------+----------------------------------------+ | 0 | no warning | | 1 | last minute of the day has 61 seconds | | 2 | last minute of the day has 59 seconds | | 3 | unknown (clock unsynchronized) | +-------+----------------------------------------+ Figure 9: Leap Indicator --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Current thread:
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?, (continued)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jay Ashworth (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Eugen Leitl (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Leo Bicknell (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jay Ashworth (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? valdis . kletnieks (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steven Bellovin (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steven Bellovin (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Brett Frankenberger (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? valdis . kletnieks (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Brett Frankenberger (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? valdis . kletnieks (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? William Herrin (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jason Hellenthal (Jul 04)