On: Leap second hiatus

[Tepix]

Just because everyone seems to be complaining about leap seconds: I think they are the right solution for the problem. I do hope we won't need a negative leap second, that would break a lot of code for sure.

Time related stuff sure is messy.

[throw0101a → Tepix]

> I do hope we won't need a negative leap second, that would break a lot of code for sure.

Someone ended up asking on one of the FreeBSD mailing lists, and it seems that they test for it:

* https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2020-Nove...

So at least when it comes to the FreeBSD kernel and ntpd, there's nothing to worry about there. Userland code may be a different matter of course.