[181700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: leap second outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Wed Jul 1 01:08:38 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 01:08:07 -0400
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E1ZA9vX-0006x8-MA@stenn.ntp.org>
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On 15-07-01 00:47, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> What I'm about to say may not be as stupid as it sounds: The problems
> here aren't problems for cases where it's not a problem. It is a
> problem where it *is* a problem.
In fairness, systems should be used to NTP making adjustments to the
system clock of a second or less.
However, in systems that expect tightly synchronized clocks, they would
want all the nodes to make the NTP adjustement at the same time.
