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Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Wed Jun 24 16:30:38 2015

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From: Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
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Once upon a time, Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com> said:
> Depends on what your Stratum-1 is syncronized to.  Some GPS time
> sources pass on the leap indicator to NTP.  For example, the SiRF-3
> GPS, connected by way of gpsd, to ntpd will pass on the leap second.

Yep, my ancient old SVeeSix has been showing the leap second for several
months; the notification it was added to the GPS signal a while back,
either at the start of the year or the start of the quarter (in theory,
leap seconds can be added/removed quarterly).

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Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>

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