From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] clock_getres.2: Document CLOCK_TAI
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 17:08:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200321220809.3430-1-benjamin@python.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200321040358.19119-1-benjamin@python.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
---
man2/clock_getres.2 | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man2/clock_getres.2 b/man2/clock_getres.2
index 3fb0ac61c..7b25b8f65 100644
--- a/man2/clock_getres.2
+++ b/man2/clock_getres.2
@@ -137,6 +137,16 @@ Requires per-architecture support,
and probably also architecture support for this flag in the
.BR vdso (7).
.TP
+.BR CLOCK_TAI " (since Linux 3.10; Linux-specific)"
+.\" Added in commit 1ff3c9677bff7e468e0c487d0ffefe4e901d33f4
+System-wide clock derived from wall time but ignoring leap seconds. This clock does
+not experience discontinuities and backwards jumps caused by NTP inserting leap
+seconds as
+.BR CLOCK_REALTIME
+does.
+.IP
+The acronym TAI refers to International Atomic Time.
+.TP
.B CLOCK_MONOTONIC
Clock that cannot be set and represents monotonic time since\(emas described
by POSIX\(em"some unspecified point in the past".
--
2.20.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-21 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-21 4:03 [PATCH] clock_getres.2: Document CLOCK_TAI Benjamin Peterson
2020-03-21 22:08 ` Benjamin Peterson [this message]
2020-03-26 7:48 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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