Tomi Maila Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 A leap second will be added at the end of the year 2008. That is after 23:59:59, a positive leap second at 23:59:60 would be counted, before the clock indicates 00:00:00 of the first day of 2009. The addition of a leap second may mesh up with the time synchronization of your software and your application may end up functioning in an unpredictable way. more… Quote Link to comment
Rolf Kalbermatter Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 QUOTE (Tomi Maila @ Dec 29 2008, 05:50 AM) A leap second will be added at the end of the year 2008. That is after 23:59:59, a positive leap second at 23:59:60 would be counted, before the clock indicates 00:00:00 of the first day of 2009. The addition of a leap second may mesh up with the time synchronization of your software and your application may end up functioning in an unpredictable way. more… Only if Windows or whatever OS you are using is adding that leap second in its time base. Question is: will they do so or just silently ignore the leap second? Edit: According to http://www.meinberg.de/english/info/leap-second.htm at least Windows will not do leap seconds correction on its own. Of course if you do time synchronization you will see the effect anyhow, however if you do that your application should be prepared to deal with incontinueties in the returned time anyhow since the synchronization can cause jumps of more than one second whenever it happens. Rolf Kalbermatter Quote Link to comment
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