Re: Leap Second planned for 2016

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

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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