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Leaping seconds and looping serversLeaping seconds and looping serversPosted Jul 17, 2012 17:59 UTC (Tue) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)In reply to: Leaping seconds and looping servers by xman Parent article: Leaping seconds and looping servers
No; that's factually incorrect, I'm afraid.
The problem here is not the *choice of timescale*: UTC is monotonic even over leap seconds; 58, 59, 60, 00.
The *problem* is that the kernel isn't following UTC *either*; not if it's ticking backwards. It's that *ticking backwards* part that is the problem, and I've yet to see a truly compelling reason why it should do so.
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