Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Jun 2015 14:07:12 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] time: Do leapsecond adjustment in gettime fastpaths |
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On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> > > 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.
Control applications with a 1ms period running on CLOCK_REALTIME are broken by definition.
> > > > 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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