Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 22:17:44 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Cc: spinlock_lists@empirequest.com, dmp@pantherdragon.org, Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Counting the clock cycles Message-ID: <20020717.221744.131412739.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <96984.1026939635@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <005f01c22dd1$7be7d180$0300a8c0@fivehundred> <96984.1026939635@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message: <96984.1026939635@critter.freebsd.dk>
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> writes:
: In message <005f01c22dd1$7be7d180$0300a8c0@fivehundred>, "Andrei Cojocaru" writ
: es:
: >I am already synchronizing using xntp, that's not the problem. The
: >problem is by some weird way the clock got out of sync by about 1hr
: >during daylight switch on one of the computers I run, and I need a
: >reliable way to get passage of time (I don't need date/time, just
: >the passage of it) for different internal operations in the program.
:
: Use UTC time, it has no daylight savings problems.
Just stupid leap-seconds :-(
Warner
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