[Pool] Fwd: WARNING: someone's faking a leap second tonight

[Martin Burnicki]

Hi Ask,

there seems to be an NTP bug related to leap seconds, where a leap second may be inserted at the end of *any* month.

Have you seen this thread in the NTP newsgroup? It is split over 2 archives in the questions mailing list archive since it starts end of July and continues now in August:
http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-July/033605.html
http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-August/033611.html

Here is a comment from Dave Hart telling that quite some pool servers are actually affected since they are still announcing a leap second:
http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-August/033649.html

One of my comments tries to explain one possible reason why this may happen, based on our observations:
http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-August/033650.html

I would have liked to send this also to the pool mailing list, but I hadn't been subscribed to this list, yet. I just have subscribed an hour or so ago, but have not yet received a confirmation email. So maybe you can forward this to the pool list.


Best regards,

Martin
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