Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:20:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/20113: /etc/defaults/make.conf:LEAPSECONDS= true? Message-ID: <200007241520.IAA52993@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/20113; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/20113: /etc/defaults/make.conf:LEAPSECONDS= true? Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:15:25 -0400 (EDT) <<On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:58:59 +0200, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> said: > You added LEAPSECONDS to the zoneinfo Makefile in rev 1.6. Do you think > it's appropriate to add a commented out entry for it to > etc/defaults/make.conf ? No, I don't. We've already had a few go-arounds on this one, and most code that exists follows the POSIX premise that leap seconds are ignored. Eventually, this will not work, but until such time as P1003 get their act together we should not officially support leap seconds in the timezone files. (It may turn out that whatever support eventually is standardized will require API changes as well.) Back in the mists of antiquity, we used to ship two complete timezone databases, called `Posix' and `Right', and allowed the user to choose which one they wanted. This caused no end of confusion. So, my opinion is that the `LEAPSECONDS' makefile variable is there for the convenience of the maintainers, and is not a user-tweakable setting. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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