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On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, Prarit Bhargava wrote:

> 
> 
> On 06/05/2015 05:04 AM, Richard Cochran wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:29:13AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> That leaves the question; for who is this exact second edge important?
> > 
> > Distributed applications using the UTC time scale.
> > 
> > Many control applications are done with a 1 millisecond period.
> > Having the time wrong by a second for 10 or 100 loops is bad news.

Control applications with a 1ms period running on CLOCK_REALTIME are
broken by definition.

> > 
> 
> Anything starting @ UTC midnight (I think that would be Beijing, China?) ...
> being one second off is not good.
> 
> P.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
> > 
>