Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Leap second handling

[David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>]

John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:

> As for how to treat the certs, you're option #1 "Treat it as hh:mm:59" is
> probably the closest to what the kernel does, since it repeats the 59th
> second on the leapsecond.

mktime64() appears to treat hh:mm:60 as the equivalent of the 0th second of
the next minute simply by adding the seconds on last with no checking.

I'm okay with implementing #1 or #2 for now (ie. treating as :59 of this
minute or :00 of the next minute) with a comment in the code indicating that
this is what we're doing.

Should I have mktime64() handle it or should I handle it in my X.509 code
though?  I favour the former as it's then a general solution that can be
handled in a single place.  I could put the handling of 24:00:00 being
equivalent of 00:00:00 of the next day there also.

David