* Stefan Schlesinger <s...@ono.at> > > On 25 Jun 2015, at 03:14, Damian Menscher via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > > > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html > > comes dangerously close to your modest proposal. > > 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.
It's implemented in chronyd versions 2.0 and up, for what it's worth. The required config directive is "leapsecmode slew". There's a nice blog post explaining how this feature, as well as some other approaches on how to deal with the leap second, work here: http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/06/01/five-different-ways-handle-leap-seconds-ntp/ Tore