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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: Peter Lothberg <roll () Stupi SE>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:41:31 CEST
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Majdi S. Abbas <msa () latt net> wrote:On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:33:35PM -0400, Tyler Haske wrote:4 years. These things are supposed to be synced to a NTP source anyway. Easiest solution is just remove leap second functionality from mainline code, and make it something you have to special-compile for.Please reconcile these two statements. Thanks, --msaSomeone running an NTP Server connected to a cesium clock could run the leap-second time code. Since its *their job* to have the correct time, they can do all the fancy rarely used things that make parts of the Internet die every couple of years.
A "cesium clock" don't knew it should do leap seconds unless you tell it, and it only affects the display and the internal time of the clock.. -:) The S1 NTP server and it's host OS has to be told to set the leap-second indicator by hand to.. But all the system on the internet has to knew what to do with this information. In the case of a host_os that do not knew about leap-seconds, NTP will have the correct time and then try to stear the host as fast as it can to loose/gain a second.. -P
Current thread:
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?, (continued)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steve Allen (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? George Herbert (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tyler Haske (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Majdi S. Abbas (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tyler Haske (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Robert E. Seastrom (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jimmy Hess (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steve Allen (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Scott Howard (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Dave Hart (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Saku Ytti (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? valdis . kletnieks (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Saku Ytti (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Saku Ytti (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Nick Hilliard (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Saku Ytti (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Keith Medcalf (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 03)