REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

Thu Jun 25 04:48:49 UTC 2015

> On 25 Jun 2015, at 03:14, Damian Menscher via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
> 
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html
> comes dangerously close to your modest proposal.
> 
> Damian

I wonder why Google hasn't published the patch yet. Leap smear sounds like the sane way to do leap seconds, and it would't break software at all, because time adjustments in the sub-second area are proven to work quite well. 

Btw. there seem to be a couple of public Google timeservers, I wonder whether could just sync time from there to get leap smearing. 

time[1-4].google.com

Also this update looks like it would smoothen the process:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-1159.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214752

-Stefan