Re: [Bug 212265] New: clock_gettime(CLOCK_TAI, ...) should return an error when TAI has not been configured

[Richard Cochran]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:56:31AM +0200, Daphne Preston-Kendal wrote:
> > The other is that the kernel updates the offset when a leap
> > second is inserted/deleted even if the original offset is zero, so
> > checking for zero (in the kernel or an application) works only until
> > the first leap second after boot.
> 
> This is a problem and definitely speaks for having a way to tell whether CLOCK_TAI has been set up at all.

+1

Thanks,
Richard