Can anyone clarify how the leap second is supposed to work? We have a GPS receiver which, I understand, already receives the leap second indicator LI and knows the leap second will happen end of 2008 UTC time.
This GPS receiver speaks IRIG-B with IEEE 1344 extensions to our Time Server. IEEE 1344 definition says the Leap Second Pending is set in the 59 seconds before the leap second happens. So our Time Server will know nothing about the leap second until 59s before the year end. By which time, NTP propagation down through the stratum hierarchy will fail to notify all NTP clients before the year end. In this scenario is it necessary to manually insert the leap second into the Time Server? Thanks in advance for any help Peter _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
