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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Jul 3 17:09:16 2012

Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:08:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120703205256.GA25086@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org>

> I'd even take off by a second but didn't crash, over crashed.

You would, but lots of people would not, and that's not the contract made
by the API definition.

If you want to run a Google-patched NTP server and talk to it, you're welcome
to.  The rest of us would prefer to just get it right, so we don't have to 
get lied to.

Cheers,
-- jra
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