Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Jun 2015 07:37:36 -0400 | From | Prarit Bhargava <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] time: Do leapsecond adjustment in gettime fastpaths |
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On 06/05/2015 05:04 AM, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:29:13AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> That leaves the question; for who is this exact second edge important? > > Distributed applications using the UTC time scale. > > Many control applications are done with a 1 millisecond period. > Having the time wrong by a second for 10 or 100 loops is bad news. >
Anything starting @ UTC midnight (I think that would be Beijing, China?) ... being one second off is not good.
P.
> Thanks, > Richard >
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