Spoon wrote: > I've just noticed the output of dmesg. > Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC > (on two different systems) > > The strange part is that, on one system, the line does not show up > in kern.log, while on the second system, it does: > > Jan 8 16:16:05 kernel: Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
That's normal. If ntpd has passed a leap second announcement to the kernel then the kernel handles the leap second. Of course whether the message appears or not depends on the implementation of the kernel. Alternatively the kernel of one of the machines may not have received a leap second announcement. Ntpd also does some plausibility checks (e.g. leap second only possible at the end of June/December) before it passes the announcement to the kernel. And, also the source code of ntpd has changed over time, so the exact behaviour depends also on the version of ntpd ... Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
