Leap Second

[John-Mark Gurney]

Peter Jeremy wrote this message on Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 06:27 +1000:
> On 2015-Jul-01 12:46:21 -0500, Leif Pedersen <bilbo at hobbiton.org> wrote:
> >Is there a reasonable way to enable awareness of leap-seconds while syncing
> >with ntpd? That is to say, how can I get the system to include leap-seconds
> >in calculating `date +%s`, without having `date` be off by 26[1] seconds?
> 
> ntpd(8) has provision for specifying a leapsecond file which presumably
> makes it leap-second aware.  I haven't looked into the details.
> 
> There's also posix2time(3) to convert between a TAI-based time_t and a
> POSIX-based time_t.

Though from my reading of the code, you need to have TZ files compiled
w/ leap seconds which FreeBSD doesn't do by default...

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