timezone behavior for date and hwclock

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Apr 18 13:40:24 UTC 2012


On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Laurent Bercot
<ska-dietlibc at skarnet.org> wrote:
>  The real dilemma about the system clock isn't between UTC and local time,
> it is between UTC and TAI-10. The gory details can be found here :
>  http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/unix-leap-seconds.html

As I see it, the real problems lie ahead.
Think about timekeeping on Mars.
You think leap seconds and UTC/TAI is a mess?
How about a timezone with 24.6 hour days???
:) :) :D

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vda


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