From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 17 23:17: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E7B437B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:17:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C0343E58 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6I6EZXB000662; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:14:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: spinlock_lists@empirequest.com, dmp@pantherdragon.org, Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Counting the clock cycles In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jul 2002 22:17:44 MDT." <20020717.221744.131412739.imp@bsdimp.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:14:35 +0200 Message-ID: <661.1026972875@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20020717.221744.131412739.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >In message: <96984.1026939635@critter.freebsd.dk> > Poul-Henning Kamp 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 :-( Well, I have already sent comments to the latest IERS questionaire telling them how ugly we think those are. Unless we want to deal properly with leapseconds and implement TAI, we have no choice in that matter. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message