On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 09:31:23AM -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > What is the earliest before a scheduled leap second that you can set the > flag? I know what ntpd does (or is supposed to), but I thought that strictly > speaking you are allowed to set it at the beginning of the leap second month?
The NTPv4 RFC is ambiguous on this point, there is "last minute of the day has 61 seconds" and also "last minute of the current month". I think it's meant to be only the last day, i.e. what the current versions of ntpd do. Allowing the leap to be announced in whole month, as we can see with ntp versions before 4.2.6, was a bad idea. -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
