Walt Mankowski on Wed, 29 Aug 2001 04:00:14 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] Party to celebrate 10^9 seconds of UNIX? 

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:19:09PM -0400, Bill Jonas wrote:
> BTW, has anyone accounted for leap seconds?  The standard says that UNIX
> time is the number of seconds since the epoch, *not* counting leap
> seconds.  I don't know if the system clocks account for leap seconds or
> not...

There's an interesting discussion of leap seconds as they pertain to
Unix epoch time and the NTP protocol at
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/html/leap.htm

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