Subject: kern/32261: ntpd and leap seconds
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/06/2005 22:05:00
>Number:         32261
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       ntpd and leap seconds
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec 06 22:05:00 +0000 2005
>Originator:     YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
>Release:        NetBSD 3.99.13
>Organization:

>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD kaeru 3.99.13 NetBSD 3.99.13 (build.kaeru.xen.nodebug) #32: Mon Dec 5 07:11:12 JST 2005 takashi@kaeru:/home/takashi/work/kernel/build.kaeru.xen.nodebug i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	- when running ntpd, kernel time (microtime/gettimeofday) counts
	  leap seconds.

	- OTOH, the manpage of gettimeofday says that the time is in seconds
	  and microseconds since the epoch.  localtime(3) and its friends
	  seem to assume that time_t doesn't count leap seconds.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

>Unformatted: