Why not keep the system clock in TAI and fudge for UTC (smeared or not) only when there is a user request?
On Dec 20, 2016, at 9:32 PM, Steve Summit <scs...@eskimo.com> wrote: > Zefram wrote: >> ...the better way to implement the smear would be to shift it downstream: >> clock synchronisation should be all unadulterated NTP handling the leap >> as a leap, and the lying should happen later, probably where the client >> ntp instances are steering their system clock. > > I've been working -- painfully slowly -- on some kernel mods > which keep true UTC in the kernel (accepting it from NTP), and do > the smearing when user mode code asks for a time_t. I'm not even > adjusting the steering of the system clock; avoiding unnecessary > perturbations there is part of the goal. > _______________________________________________ > LEAPSECS mailing list > LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com > https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
