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>my question is why would anyone wnat to use those right timezones?

If you modified ntpd to call posix2time() and time2posix() in the
right places when computing offsets, and disabled ntp's leap-second
handling, your system would actually show the correct time around leap
seconds rather than the wrong time required by POSIX.

Since nobody does this, many vendors do not ship the leap-second
cognizant data files. We disabled this in FreeBSD more than a decade
ago.

-GAWollman

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lliks@labogcbs.net writes:
> i understand the timezones contain in /usr/share/zoneinfo/right respect
> leap second, so if one were to use the utc in the "right" directory, the
> time show on his system would be 23 seconds behind than the other utc
> (/usr/share/zoneinfo/utc) whould show.

Google for "bernstein tai" to see the history (and bitter arguments)
around having leap seconds "jump" the low-level timekeeping mechanism
vs. having leap seconds added later on during the display routine's
formatting of the "civil" time.

http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html

-wolfgang
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