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Posted by Unruh on 06/30/07 18:56
"David T. Ashley" <dta@e3ft.com> writes:
>I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
>I was just reading up about UTC and leap seconds.
>Is it true on my system that the Unix time may skip up or down by one second
>at midnight when there is a leap second?
It might. If you are running ntp.
>By "Unix time" I mean the integer returned by time() and similar functions.
>I'm concerned about the "down" case. Some of the software I've written
>assumes monotonically-increasing time.
The time is ALWAYS monotonically increasing.
Sometime it may be very slow.
>Thanks.
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