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Re:UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? by acqq on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:46AM (#17185374)
Why would anybody schedule events in local time to happen on leap seconds?
Re:UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? by simonh on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:48AM (#17185855)
If it's say a scheduler for an application, you might have an activity that occurs every x seconds. At a previous job events like that were often scheduled such that x was a different prime number for each task, in order to minimize regular simultaneous executions. A system like that could easily end up with tasks running on a leap-second.
Re:UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? by acqq on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @07:05AM (#17186657)
Your example isn’t scheduling in local time but in system time.

In local time would be “my meeting starts at xxx”. Leap seconds schould not be involved there, and neither the system time. The users aren’t going to be glad you’re doing that.

Re:UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? by amptorn on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:34AM (#17185800)
To make sure you covered those edge cases correctly!
Re:UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? by acqq on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @07:06AM (#17186662)
The best coverage is not introducing special cases where they aren’t relevant.