Posted by David T. Ashley on 06/23/07 05:04

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?

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.

Thanks.
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