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Just because everyone seems to be complaining about leap seconds: I think they are the right solution for the problem. I do hope we won't need a negative leap s

by Tepix 6y ago

Just because everyone seems to be complaining about leap seconds: I think they are the right solution for the problem. I do hope we won't need a negative leap second, that would break a lot of code for sure. Time related stuff sure is messy.

throw0101a 6y ago
> I do hope we won't need a negative leap second, that would break a lot of code for sure. Someone ended up asking on one of the FreeBSD mailing lists, and it seems that they test for it: * https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2020-November/092837.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2020-Nove... So at least when it comes to the FreeBSD kernel and ntpd, there's nothing to worry about there. Userland code may be a different matter of course.