051225 Ian Hastie wrote: > 24 Dec 2005 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 & 060101 000000 . >> Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? >> Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast >> & adjust over a few hours or does something else alert it to correct >> things ? If the former, it could create problems for those running >> experiments; if the latter, does anyone know how it is done ? >> The last leap second was 1998/9 , > The newer NTP standard is now RFC1305, http://rfc.net/rfc1305.html.
The details are in Appx E : it seems a warning bit is set manually by the operator of the primary time server during the previous day & one supposes -- hopes (smile) -- that local NTP clients receive it & understand what it all means, thereby resetting the local clock. Perhaps we should all watch our Gkrellms as 2006 flips into view ... -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
