[ntp:questions] Preparing for the leap second

David J Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid
Wed Jan 11 07:21:21 UTC 2012


"unruh" <unruh at invalid.ca> wrote in message 
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> Not sure what ntpd does on a Windows system.

It behaved quite nicely last time.  IIRC it either slows the clock by 50% 
or speeds it up by 100%, so that it either takes 1 second to go from 
00:00:00 to 00:00:02, or two seconds to go from 00:00:00 to 00:00:01, for 
example.

The problem used to be that it only needed one rogue server announcing a 
leap-second to trigger the change, but that was fixed for recent NTP 
versions.

Cheers,
David 



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