Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, David Newall <davidn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> No.  Exactly the contrary.  I'm saying that through use of zoneinfo, for
> example, no kernel support is required for leap seconds.  And! this
> provides correct results for seconds-between two dates.

Again: zoneinfo provides offset from UTC.  Leap seconds are changes in
UTC itself, not time zones, so zoneinfo can't handle that.

Please go read Google, Wikipedia, and NTP lists.
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