[110426] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Leap second tonight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Buhrmaster, Gary)
Mon Jan 5 15:48:16 2009
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:50:29 -0800
In-Reply-To: <C5880786.235FA%leo.vegoda@icann.org>
From: "Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb@slac.stanford.edu>
To: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> It's theoretically possible for leap seconds to be introduced=20
> at the end of March and September.=20
As I recall, NTP supports leap seconds every month,
for which there is a prediction that even this
would be insufficient at some point in this
millennium (depending, of course, on the actual
rotation speed). There have been on again/off again
talks to abolish the leap second for quite a number
of years.
Gary
