On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 02:40:44PM +0100, Laurent Georget wrote: > @@ -101,7 +99,19 @@ combination of zero or more of the following bits: > Ordinary users are restricted to a zero value for > .IR modes . > Only the superuser may set any parameters. > +.PP > +Support for TAI (Atomic International Time, for a complete explanation > about > +what it is and what is the difference between TAI and UTC, see > +.UR http://www.bipm.org/en/bipm/tai/tai.html > +.I BIPM > +.UE ) > +has been added in version 2.6.29. For any clock, the TAI offset may Not for "any clock", just for CLOCK_REALTIME. > +be calculated by adding a value to the UTC offset which is updated when a > +leap second is added or deleted. > .br > +All the offsets in the timex structure are expressed between the value > of the > +clock and the corresponding value (e.g. TAI offset is the difference > between > +the clock and the TAI, not between TAI and another value such as UTC). The TAI offset is just (TAI - UTC). That's all. Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
