On 1 December 2016 at 19:45, Brooks Harris <bro...@edlmax.com> wrote: > As I read it I think Google's intention is to publish their method and > algorithm in the hopes others may follow it. It would be better if everybody > did it the same way, but it will remain to be seen if others will choose to > follow the example.
The page reads clearly enough to me that: - Google will leap over 20 hours this time because it is too late to change their plans - They plan to leap over 24 hours next time to match Amazon and others - The propose an informal "standard" of 24 hours leaps henceforth If all the big IT players agree on a 24 hour leap, 12 hours either side of midnight UTC, then we have all moved a step forward. Even more so if they write up the approach as a formal standard. The next issue is that there are then two types of NTP server - smeared and non-smeared - and no way to tell the difference. Call me naive, but that seems like a perfectly soluble problem, either within NTP or external to it. For the record, I think that both leap-smeared and leap-accurate broadcast time have value, but it should be easily possible to tell which is being received. I also desperately want there to be a name for the proposed informal standard, so we can all talk about it. Stephen _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs