[181461] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Schlesinger)
Thu Jun 25 17:32:37 2015
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From: Stefan Schlesinger <sts@ono.at>
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 06:48:49 +0200
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> On 25 Jun 2015, at 03:14, Damian Menscher via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> =
wrote:
>=20
> =
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds=
.html
> comes dangerously close to your modest proposal.
>=20
> Damian
I wonder why Google hasn't published the patch yet. Leap smear sounds =
like the sane way to do leap seconds, and it would't break software at =
all, because time adjustments in the sub-second area are proven to work =
quite well.=20
Btw. there seem to be a couple of public Google timeservers, I wonder =
whether could just sync time from there to get leap smearing.=20
time[1-4].google.com
Also this update looks like it would smoothen the process:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-1159.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1214752
-Stefan=
