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

[Prarit Bhargava]

On 06/05/2015 05:04 AM, Richard Cochran wrote:
> 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.
> 

Anything starting @ UTC midnight (I think that would be Beijing, China?) ...
being one second off is not good.

P.

> Thanks,
> Richard
> 
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