REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

Wed Jun 24 12:34:05 UTC 2015

Yes, the clock has to be bad. Been there, done that, especially early Sun x86 servers.

Leap years and DST are both things people and developers are aware of outside of technology, leap seconds, not so much.

> On Jun 23, 2015, at 11:33 PM, Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> wrote:
> 
> 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