Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] time: Do leapsecond adjustment in gettime fastpaths

[Richard Cochran]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:29:13AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> That leaves the question; for who is this exact second edge important?

Distributed applications using the UTC time scale.

Many control applications are done with a 1 millisecond period.
Having the time wrong by a second for 10 or 100 loops is bad news.

Thanks,
Richard
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