[ntp:questions] Ruh, roh. Leap Second?
David L. Mills
mills at udel.edu
Fri Jul 4 21:06:45 UTC 2008
Martin,
Yes.
Dave
Martin Burnicki wrote:
> Dave,
>
> David L. Mills wrote:
>
>>Martin,
>>
>>There can be a disconnect of serveral months between some gimmick in the
>>development branch and when it appears on supermarket shelves;
>
>
> Of course.
>
>
>>however,
>>the current version does explicitly announce impending leaps in the
>>protostats file and does take a vote among the sources on whether to
>>mark the calendar for a leap. All this is overridden if the NIST
>>leapseconds file is present.
>
>
> Understood. However, does it also write to the log file from *which*
> source(s) a leap second announcement has been received?
>
> Martin
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