[87647] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Leap second reminder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Sat Dec 31 17:19:20 2005
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:18:41 -0500
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: Gerry Boudreaux <gerry@tape.net>
Cc: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <49F6A08D-882F-4542-92D8-8500BD5A60AC@tape.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Cisco seems happy as well. (adding leap second, leap second occurs at), etc.
>sh ntp status
Clock is synchronized (adding leap second), stratum 2, reference is
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nominal freq is 250.0000 Hz, actual freq is 249.9975 Hz, precision is 2**18
reference time is C7617E39.3A0B3D8C (17:01:29.226 EST Sat Dec 31 2005)
clock offset is 0.5332 msec, root delay is 5.11 msec
root dispersion is 7.72 msec, peer dispersion is 7.14 msec
Leap second occurs at C7619A00.00000000 (19:00:00.000 EST Sat Dec 31 2005)
Happy New Year!
Deepak
Gerry Boudreaux wrote:
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> On Dec 31, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Kevin Day wrote:
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>> Just a reminder, at midnight UTC there's a leap second added to most
>> time systems.
>>
>> Some time systems will stop the clock at 23:59:59.999999 for 1
>> second, some will display 23:59:60 for a second.
>>
>> Since the last leap second (1998), "leap second aware" time keeping
>> systems(NTP, GPS, etc) have become much more prevalent, so it's much
>> more likely this time that applications and NTP sync'ed devices will
>> see a leap second happen(rather than have them manually corrected
>> later, or not corrected at all). But, I'm not too sure how well
>> everyone has tested applications and devices for how they handle the
>> clock stopping for a second OR an "invalid" time of 23:59:60.
>>
>> If anyone sees anything die at 00:00:00UTC I'd be interested to know.
>>
>> -- Kevin
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> My Juniper seems to be aware:
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> xxx@juniper> show ntp status
> status=4694 leap_add_sec, sync_ntp, 9 events, event_peer/strat_chg,
> version="ntpd 4.1.0-a Thu Jul 14 23:46:40 GMT 2005 (1)",
> processor="i386", system="JUNOS7.3R1.5", leap=01, stratum=3,
> precision=-30, rootdelay=40.669, rootdispersion=49.522, peer=35302,
> refid=ntpx.xxx.xxx,
> reftime=c7615c1c.65f78359 Sat, Dec 31 2005 13:35:56.398, poll=10,
> clock=c7615d8e.d66d698f Sat, Dec 31 2005 13:42:06.837, state=4,
> offset=-2.649, frequency=73.810, jitter=5.194, stability=0.024
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> note the leap=01 and leap_add_sec
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