leap second outage
Harlan Stenn
stenn at ntp.org
Wed Jul 1 05:59:43 UTC 2015
Mikael Abrahamsson writes:
> This is similar to the jiffycounter wrapping, since this doesn't happen
> that often, it's not commonly tested for. Good way is to start the jiffy
> counter so it wraps after 10 minutes of uptime. That way you'll run into
> any bugs quickly. Either we should abolish the leap second or we should
> make leap second adjustments (back and forth) on a monthly basis to
> exercise the code.
>
> This is a hard sell though...
and it's perversely interesting. It would even be tolerable when the
difference between UTC and UT1 is such that the insertions and deletions
maintain the +/- .9 s difference. There would even be enough time to
warn folks about this.
H
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