On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 05:39 +0900, Kuwahara,T. wrote: > My proposal: Limit the adjustable range of the offset so that leap > seconds will never occur more than once. (2147.5 seconds would be the > best choice. :-) 2147.5? That's ~36 minutes. While I think a limit could be a sensible compromise here. Leap seconds are limited to every six months. So surely a limit of 86400 (one day), or 2592000 (30 days) would be more reasonable. thanks -john -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html