REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

Harlan Stenn stenn at ntp.org
Fri Jun 19 23:09:18 UTC 2015


Baldur Norddahl writes:
> On 19 June 2015 at 23:58, Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> wrote:
> 
> > Bad idea.
> >
> > When restarting ntpd your clocks will likely be off by a second, which
> > will cause a backward step, which will force the problem you claim to be
> > avoiding.
> 
> If you are afraid that your routers will crash due to the leapsecond,
> then it would help to disable the thing that you think will crash
> them. Even if the router crashes when you enable it later on. Because
> then you can have one router crash at a time and have it happen in a
> service window where you are ready for it. Instead of having all
> routers in your whole network crash at exactly the same time.

That' seems fair, as long as you turn off the time stuff only on your
routers, and I'm assuming this is on routers that don't have supported
software.

H



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