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  3. January 2006

Re: Leap second

Bill wrote:
> Yes, it is interesting, but from another viewpoint:  Why would they 
> spend the time to code for this when almost everyone would be synching 
> their clocks to a time server?

Keep in mind that Redhat Linux 7.3 is a number of years old (still works
fine, btw) and (My suspicion is that) this support was in Linux before
7.3 was released.  When the support was added, not all systems were
connected to the net the way we are now.

david

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