On 09/02/15 11:49, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> I was wondering what others think about handling leap seconds when
> ntpd is running in the "slew only" mode (-x option).
[...]
> In 4.2.6 was added support for leap seconds in the daemon loop and
> ntpd now steps the clock by calling settimeofday() or clock_settime(),
> even if the step threshold (set by -x or tinker step) is larger than
> one second.

That was my plan (actually using tinker for that and explicitly
disabling the kernel discipline). My tests three years ago suggested
that the clock wasn't stepped but maybe I was using 4.2.4?

Anyway, I'll let you know as soon as I can set some time aside to do
these tests.

Ciao
-- bronto


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