Re: [RFC 0/2] ABI for clock_gettime_ns

[Richard Cochran]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 07:43:02PM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> 
> Having a CLOCK_TAI would be interesting across the board. We already
> keep a TAI offset in the ntp code. However, I'm not sure if ntp actually
> sets it these days.

A bit OT, but what do think of the idea of keeping TAI in the kernel,
and providing UTC via a tabular conversion routine?

Michel Hack wrote an article last year detailing how Linux botches the
leap second and suggested a more robust way to handle it.

Thanks,
Richard


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