[181286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harlan Stenn)
Fri Jun 19 17:59:26 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
In-reply-to: <709AFB28-CC8F-4E01-929C-50EB21CD27FE@beckman.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 21:58:00 +0000
Cc: "<nanog@nanog.org>" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Bad idea.
When restarting ntpd your clocks will likely be off by a second, which
will cause a backward step, which will force the problem you claim to be
avoiding.
There are plenty of ways to solve this problem, and you just get to
choose what you want to risk/pay.
--
Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>
http://networktimefoundation.org - be a member!
