
26 Jan
2005
26 Jan
'05
8:05 p.m.
Keean Schupke writes:
How would you implement it, given that gettimeofday() and other Unix calls which return the current time either gradually slow down near a leap second [...].
The computers timer should not attempt to adjust for leap seconds...
I seem to recall reading somewhere that leap second inserts are supposed to be represented as: 23:59:59 23:59:60 00:00:00 Grated, that doesn't really help with calculating durations accurately. ;-) Peter