Mikolaj Kucharski: > This year we will have positive leap second[1] I've recently got asked > how OpenNTPD handles leap seconds and did anything change from 2012[2].
Nothing has changed. OpenNTPD does nothing with leap seconds. I think the basic attitude is that (1) they're rare enough that we can ignore the issue and (2) everybody has been hoping that the problem would just go away and leap seconds would finally be abolished. (Since we're counting seconds since the epoch, why aren't leap seconds just handled by the timezone database? Don't answer that.) > Giving that this question may come back again, would it make sense to > explain in ntpd(8) how the daemon handles leap seconds? I'm not convinced that we need to document this esoteric detail. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
