David Malone wrote: > "David J Taylor" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On both problem PCs, at 01:00 a positive leap second is inserted. >> Arrgh! > > Interesting stuff - after the last leapsecond there were stuff > public time servers advertising a pending leapsecond 12 hours later. > Evidently there were some still advertising it a whole 6 months > later! > >> All my systems are using the server ntp2c.mcc.ac.uk, so I presume >> that is not is sending out the spurious message. How can I find out >> if a server is sending out a leap-second required message? I can >> only assume something in the UK pool of servers was incorrectly >> sending the leap-second message, and may still be. > > You can see the leap bits by doing something like: > > ntpq -c rv localhost > > (replace localhost with the name of the host you want to query) > and look for the "leap=" value. It should be "00" at the moment. > I used this to produce the graph at: > > http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/time/leap2005.html#ntpleapflag > > It would be interesting to survey the pool servers and see which > are advertising a leap second. > > David.
Thanks, David. Well, I can see that neither Manchester not my simple stratum-1 server is advertsing leap-seconds. Persumably some in the UK pool still are (or were). Perhaps you can use your program to check? Cheers, David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
