Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib Non-Bug

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de> writes:

|> Well, it turned out that they had forgotten the leapseconds which are
|> periodically inserted to correct discrepancies between atomic time and
|> the earth's rotation.  That is the reason why you have the subdirectories
|> `posix' and `right' in `/usr/share/zoneinfo'.  By default the MiNTLib
|> violates POSIX and takes leapseconds into account.

IMHO you should not do that.  Every other system uses the POSIX rules, and
only those that really care about leapseconds switch to the right ones.
You really don't need leapseconds on an average system.

Everyone should use UT for the hw clock, really.

Andreas.

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