Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years2008-2009

[Alan Cox]

> zoneinfo.  Epoch remains the start of  1978; seconds between any two
> dates included leap-seconds and no special kernel support is required.

Your time() values then disagree with the rest of the universe. See POSIX
1003.1 Annex B 2.2.2. if you want the whole story,

For any given time based on the 1970 Epoch there is a single correct
answer for the translation between each value and a UTC time.

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