REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

Harlan Stenn stenn at ntp.org
Wed Jun 24 03:33:05 UTC 2015


Matthew Huff writes:
> A backward step is a known issue and something that people are more
> comfortable dealing with as it can happen on any machine with a noisy
> clock crystal.

A clock crystal has to be REALLY bad for ntpd to need to step the clock.

> Having 61 seconds in a minute or 86401 seconds in a day is a different
> story.

Yeah, leap years suck too.

And those jumps around daylight savings time.

H



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