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[Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: CLOCK_TAI (was NTPv5: big picture)

Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> Fri, 08 January 2021 07:38 UTC

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From: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
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Subject: [Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: CLOCK_TAI (was NTPv5: big picture)
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>>> Martin Burnicki <martin.burnicki=40meinberg.de@dmarc.ietf.org> schrieb am
07.01.2021 um 17:20 in Nachricht
<b835a9bf-510d-c1a4-52f7-29607cff3a5b@meinberg.de>:
...
> A huge part of the whole problem is that an inserted leap second is
> originally defined as a numbering of seconds like 58, 59, 60, 0 in
> human-readable format, which is totally unsuitable for timekeeping in an
> OS kernel.
...

Even for a traditional "three-hands analog clock" (hour, minute, second) second "60" is quite a challenge ;-)

Regards,
Ulrich

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