[154444] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tyler Haske)
Wed Jul 4 00:04:17 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120704035932.GA20652@puck.nether.net>
From: Tyler Haske <tyler.haske@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 00:02:57 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Majdi S. Abbas <msa@latt.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:33:35PM -0400, Tyler Haske wrote:
>> 4 years. These things are supposed to be synced to a NTP source
>> anyway.
>>
>> Easiest solution is just remove leap second functionality from
>> mainline code, and make it something you have to special-compile for.
>
> Please reconcile these two statements.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --msa
Someone running an NTP Server connected to a cesium clock could run
the leap-second time code. Since its *their job* to have the correct
time, they can do all the fancy rarely used things that make parts of
the Internet die every couple of years.
