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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: ctime(3) and leap seconds :-)
Message-ID: <6976@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 8 Jan 88 04:44:21 GMT
References: <604@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 10
Keywords: ctime, leap second, epoch

In article <604@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> bww@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Bradley White) writes:
>	The time routines in the C library know nothing about leap
>	seconds.  This means that the correspondence between the
>	number of seconds since the epoch and the actual time of
>	day is broken.

The C library time routines are not PERMITTED to know about leap
seconds, according to the current draft proposed ANSI C standard.
You should set the system clock so that ctime() reports the correct
time of day.