| Hi everyone,
I've been planning to add something to to the system so it checks for correct leap second announcements, it looks like I shouldn't wait until the next leap second before doing it.
Ask Begin forwarded message: From: Martin Burnicki
Subject: Fwd: WARNING: someone's faking a leap second tonight
Date: August 2, 2012 3:35:31 AM PDT
To: Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi Ask,
there seems to be an NTP bug related to leap seconds, where a leap second may be inserted at the end of *any* month.
Have you seen this thread in the NTP newsgroup? It is split over 2 archives in the questions mailing list archive since it starts end of July and continues now in August:
http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-July/033605.html
http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-August/033611.html
Here is a comment from Dave Hart telling that quite some pool servers are actually affected since they are still announcing a leap second:
http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-August/033649.html
One of my comments tries to explain one possible reason why this may happen, based on our observations:
http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-August/033650.html
I would have liked to send this also to the pool mailing list, but I hadn't been subscribed to this list, yet. I just have subscribed an hour or so ago, but have not yet received a confirmation email. So maybe you can forward this to the pool list.
Best regards,
Martin
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi all
This is just to warn you that there are now some NTP servers around the
globe spreading a leap second announcement for tomorrow 00:00:00 UTC
(so, basically, in a few hours now).
If you didn't take action before the leapocalypse last month, you better
hurry now.
Ciao
-- bronto
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