[181426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harlan Stenn)
Tue Jun 23 23:35:47 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>
To: Matthew Huff <mhuff@ox.com>
In-reply-to: <D0016F61-87DD-407C-AE6E-DF22DBAAD50D@ox.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 03:33:05 +0000
Cc: nanog2 <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Matthew Huff writes:
> A backward step is a known issue and something that people are more
> comfortable dealing with as it can happen on any machine with a noisy
> clock crystal.
A clock crystal has to be REALLY bad for ntpd to need to step the clock.
> Having 61 seconds in a minute or 86401 seconds in a day is a different
> story.
Yeah, leap years suck too.
And those jumps around daylight savings time.
H
