Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Martin Burnicki
Paul wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:34 PM, brian utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: On 1/11/2015 10:40 PM, William Unruh wrote: Well, actually as I understand it, ntpd does stop the cclock for that second That is not the case. That is the behavior that the kernel reference

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Martin Burnicki
Mike S wrote: On 1/11/2015 7:16 PM, William Unruh wrote: If that public source is responsible it will pass on to your system the fact that there is a leapsecond, and your system will stop for a second at the last second of June. A system which properly implements leap seconds will do no such

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Martin Burnicki
Rob schrieb: Mike S mi...@flatsurface.com wrote: On 1/11/2015 7:16 PM, William Unruh wrote: If that public source is responsible it will pass on to your system the fact that there is a leapsecond, and your system will stop for a second at the last second of June. A system which properly

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Mike Cook
Not true. That would violate POSIX. There is no properly implements, or right thing. Perhaps you're unaware that POSIX isn't the One True Operating System specification. Properly implements means it follows the well defined, 40 year old normative specification for handling leap

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Rob
Mike S mi...@flatsurface.com wrote: On 1/11/2015 7:16 PM, William Unruh wrote: If that public source is responsible it will pass on to your system the fact that there is a leapsecond, and your system will stop for a second at the last second of June. A system which properly implements leap

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Rob
brian utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: On 1/11/2015 4:56 PM, Rob wrote: Michael Moroney moro...@world.std.spaamtrap.com wrote: If I have a system synchronized with a public NTP source, which is synchronized with an atomic clock that provides leap second info, and I am watching

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Martin Burnicki
Marco Marongiu wrote: On 12/01/15 06:10, William Unruh wrote: I also admit I do not know how windows impliments leap seconds. The Windows operating system by itself is not aware of any leap seconds, as far as I know. Due to this fact, I opened a bugzilla issue back in 2005

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Michael Moroney
Rob nom...@example.com writes: Michael Moroney moro...@world.std.spaamtrap.com wrote: If I have a system synchronized with a public NTP source, which is synchronized with an atomic clock that provides leap second info, and I am watching carefully, what will happen when the leap second hits?

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Jochen Bern
On 01/12/2015 04:55 PM, William Unruh wrote: So, there are a bunch of proposals. 1. stop the clock a la Mills (delivering times that always increase but very very slowly during that second). 2. double the rate of the clock during the two seconds around the leap. Have the clock run in

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Rob
Michael Moroney moro...@world.std.spaamtrap.com wrote: Rob nom...@example.com writes: Michael Moroney moro...@world.std.spaamtrap.com wrote: If I have a system synchronized with a public NTP source, which is synchronized with an atomic clock that provides leap second info, and I am watching

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Rob
Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: Rob schrieb: Mike S mi...@flatsurface.com wrote: On 1/11/2015 7:16 PM, William Unruh wrote: If that public source is responsible it will pass on to your system the fact that there is a leapsecond, and your system will stop for a second at

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Marco Marongiu
On 12/01/15 11:48, Martin Burnicki wrote: Fortunately Dave Hart had some time to have a closer look at this, and fix it for 4.2.6, so unless something has been broken again in the mean time it should be fixed in 4.2.6 and later, and should work correctly. Let me understand: you mean that in

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Paul
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Mike Cook mike.c...@orange.fr wrote: Why do folks mention leap seconds on this list? part of the NTP protocol deals with the scheduling insertion/deletion of leap seconds. I should have phrased that differently. Or just let it go. Why do people

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
A useful application of a leap second for POSIX and Windows systems is something I believe the General Timestamp API handles pretty well. There are some slides about halfway in to http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/aas223/presentations/2-3-NetworkTimeInfrastructure.pptx.pdf that talk about

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
Marco Marongiu writes: On 12/01/15 06:10, William Unruh wrote: I also admit I do not know how windows impliments leap seconds. I don't have a reference, but I remember that at the time of the latest leap second I read that Windows will half the clock speed at 23:59:59 so that it reaches

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Rob
William Unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: So, there are a bunch of proposals. stop the clock a la Mills (delivering times that always increase but very very slowly during that second). double the rate of the clock during the two seconds around the leap. Have the clock run in TAI and put the

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread David Woolley
On 12/01/15 16:10, Marco Marongiu wrote: If so, does it also mean that it would do the same when you disable the kernel discipline by adding a disable kernel in ntp.conf? (Or by trying to disable stepping. A lot of people seem to run systems that are incompatible with the use of the kernel

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Brian Utterback
On 1/12/2015 6:29 AM, Mike Cook wrote: Not true. That would violate POSIX. There is no properly implements, or right thing. Perhaps you're unaware that POSIX isn't the One True Operating System specification. Properly implements means it follows the well defined, 40 year old normative

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread Brian Inglis
NIST updated ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list linked to leap-seconds.3629404800 On 2015-01-05 07:29, Marco Marongiu wrote: Get ready, fellows. It's coming again. -- bronto Forwarded Message Subject: Bulletin C number 49 Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:25:49 +0100 From:

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread Paul
Why do folks mention leap seconds on this list? Why do people point to leap-seconds.NTPtimestamp instead of just leap-seconds.list? My five line leap second file with comments and one extra line for (completely unnecessary) context. #$ 3629404800 #@ 3660249600 3550089600 35 #

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread Rob
Michael Moroney moro...@world.std.spaamtrap.com wrote: If I have a system synchronized with a public NTP source, which is synchronized with an atomic clock that provides leap second info, and I am watching carefully, what will happen when the leap second hits? Will my system suddenly find

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread Mike S
On 1/11/2015 7:16 PM, William Unruh wrote: If that public source is responsible it will pass on to your system the fact that there is a leapsecond, and your system will stop for a second at the last second of June. A system which properly implements leap seconds will do no such thing. It will

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread William Unruh
On 2015-01-11, Michael Moroney moro...@world.std.spaamtrap.com wrote: If I have a system synchronized with a public NTP source, which is synchronized with an atomic clock that provides leap second info, and I am watching carefully, what will happen when the leap second hits? Will my system

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread William Unruh
On 2015-01-12, Mike S mi...@flatsurface.com wrote: On 1/11/2015 7:16 PM, William Unruh wrote: If that public source is responsible it will pass on to your system the fact that there is a leapsecond, and your system will stop for a second at the last second of June. A system which properly

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread brian utterback
On 1/11/2015 9:44 PM, Mike S wrote: On 1/11/2015 7:16 PM, William Unruh wrote: If that public source is responsible it will pass on to your system the fact that there is a leapsecond, and your system will stop for a second at the last second of June. A system which properly implements leap

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread brian utterback
On 1/11/2015 10:40 PM, William Unruh wrote: On 2015-01-12, Mike S mi...@flatsurface.com wrote: On 1/11/2015 7:16 PM, William Unruh wrote: If that public source is responsible it will pass on to your system the fact that there is a leapsecond, and your system will stop for a second at the

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread brian utterback
On 1/11/2015 4:56 PM, Rob wrote: Michael Moroney moro...@world.std.spaamtrap.com wrote: If I have a system synchronized with a public NTP source, which is synchronized with an atomic clock that provides leap second info, and I am watching carefully, what will happen when the leap second

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread Michael Moroney
If I have a system synchronized with a public NTP source, which is synchronized with an atomic clock that provides leap second info, and I am watching carefully, what will happen when the leap second hits? Will my system suddenly find its clock off by 1 second and slowly drift to the accurate

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread Paul
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:34 PM, brian utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: On 1/11/2015 10:40 PM, William Unruh wrote: Well, actually as I understand it, ntpd does stop the cclock for that second That is not the case. That is the behavior that the kernel reference code

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread William Unruh
On 2015-01-12, brian utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: On 1/11/2015 10:40 PM, William Unruh wrote: On 2015-01-12, Mike S mi...@flatsurface.com wrote: On 1/11/2015 7:16 PM, William Unruh wrote: If that public source is responsible it will pass on to your system the fact that there

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