Hi Marco, Marco Marongiu wrote: > Hi Miroslav, all > > It looks like it took more than 15 seconds for this to work correctly...
In my post from the earlier thread I wrote: > Then you should set UTC time on that server close to (maybe 1 or 2 hours > before) midnight for the correct leap second date, e.g. 22:00 UTC on > June 30, 2012, and start ntpd on the server. > Il 08/03/2012 14:28, Miroslav Lichvar ha scritto: >> Do you see the leap bit enabled in ntptime or adjtimex output? > > I didn't check ntptime or adjtimex before, so I tried now: I re-set the > time to June 30th, 23:55:00 and I see the leap second armed in ntpq's rv: > > associd=0 status=4519 leap_add_sec, sync_local, 1 event, leap_armed, > > I didn't see the leap second armed immediately with adjtimex (adjtimex > --print | grep status returned 1 for a while), but now after a few > minutes it reports 17 correctly: > > root@leapstick:~# adjtimex --print | grep status > status: 17 > > while ntptime reports > > root@leapstick:~# ntptime > ntp_gettime() returns code 1 (INS) > time d39a1169.5d1d2000 Sat, Jun 30 2012 23:59:37.363, (.363726), > maximum error 458280 us, estimated error 0 us > ntp_adjtime() returns code 1 (INS) > modes 0x0 (), > offset 0.000 us, frequency 97.395 ppm, interval 1 s, > maximum error 458280 us, estimated error 0 us, > status 0x11 (PLL,INS), > time constant 6, precision 1.000 us, tolerance 500 ppm, > > > At the right time ntpd actually inserted the leap second: > > Jun 30 23:59:59 leapstick kernel: [1293608.501308] Clock: inserting leap > second 23:59:60 UTC > > And I verified that Squeeze actually steps back the clock :( > > 2012/06/30 23:59:59.999590790 0.000000008200004 > 2012/06/30 23:59:59.000300870 -0.000011565854948 > 2012/06/30 23:59:59.000996706 0.000000008054485 > > (the second column is the increment relative to the previous line) > > For the record, this is uname -a on squeeze: > > Linux leapstick 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 16:22:28 UTC 2012 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I don't know if leap seconds are handled better in more recent kernels. A very quick look at the sources of some Linux kernel versions seems to indicate that the time interpolation during the leap second has been removed and replaced by simply stepping the clock back. Appearingly this has happened starting with kernel 2.6.23, where the function time_interpolator_update() isn't called anymore by the leap second handling code in kernel/time/ntp.c. I haven't made some tests to verify that 2.6.22 still interpolates, but 2.6.23 does not, though. Regards, Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
