Re: [ntp:questions] leap second warning bits in practice

2015-05-13 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:33:31AM +0200, Marco Marongiu wrote: On 12/05/15 11:28, Marco Marongiu wrote: Hi there In http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.6p5/ntpd.html#leap I read: If the leap is in the future less than 28 days, the leap warning bits are set. What are the practical consequences

Re: [ntp:questions] leap second warning bits in practice

2015-05-13 Thread Marco Marongiu
On 13/05/15 13:23, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: I'm not sure what exactly are you asking here. Do you see in your testing or the source code something different from what is described in the document? No, I am trying to understand if what I understand* from the documentation is correct. * sorry

Re: [ntp:questions] leap second warning bits in practice

2015-05-13 Thread Marco Marongiu
On 13/05/15 11:03, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:33:31AM +0200, Marco Marongiu wrote: On 12/05/15 11:28, Marco Marongiu wrote: Hi there In http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.6p5/ntpd.html#leap I read: If the leap is in the future less than 28 days, the leap warning bits are set.

Re: [ntp:questions] leap second warning bits in practice

2015-05-13 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:44:37AM +0200, Marco Marongiu wrote: I understand that the leap second is not armed in the kernel if only the warning is set. Rather, it seems that the warning is used by a client to understand if it should believe its upstreams when they claim there will be a leap

[ntp:questions] leap second warning bits in practice

2015-05-12 Thread Marco Marongiu
Hi there In http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.6p5/ntpd.html#leap I read: If the leap is in the future less than 28 days, the leap warning bits are set. What are the practical consequences of the warning bits being set? Will they cause the leap second to be armed in the kernel eventually? What if the kernel

Re: [ntp:questions] leap second warning bits in practice

2015-05-12 Thread Marco Marongiu
On 12/05/15 11:28, Marco Marongiu wrote: Hi there In http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.6p5/ntpd.html#leap I read: If the leap is in the future less than 28 days, the leap warning bits are set. What are the practical consequences of the warning bits being set? Will they cause the leap second to be