[ntp:hackers] please record leapsecond data from your refclocks

Richard S. Shuford shuford at aics.net
Wed Dec 21 19:56:22 UTC 2005


On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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|DCF77 doesn't tell us until the last hour before, and I fear that
|may be a major error source here in europe:  I usually [lose] DCF77
|signal once all the fireworks goes up (23:00:00 UTC) and then get
|it back whenever the wind clears the atmosphere.
|If I don't have reliable lock for an entire hour, I won't know
|about the leapsecond at all :-(

Poul,

Perhaps you should write up this phenomenon in detail and
post it to Peter G. Neumann's "Risks Forum".

    http://www.CSL.sri.com/risksinfo.html

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