[ntp:hackers] ITU and Leap second elimination

Harlan Stenn stenn at ntp.org
Fri Oct 4 00:24:05 UTC 2013


John Stultz writes:
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
> > john.stultz at linaro.org said:
> >> Just FYI, with v3.10, we've added a CLOCK_TAI clockid to the Linux kernel.
> >
> > Neat/thanks.
> >
> >> Though it requires something set the timex.tai offset via adjtimex() to be
> >> correct (ntpd will set it if there's a leapfile configured).
> >
> > My copy of ntp-dev doesn't mention ADJ_TAI so I assume you are only testing
> > that code locally.  When will it get upstreamed?  (I'll be happy to help te
> st
> > it.)
> 
> Right.. I say ADJ_TAI, you say MOD_TAI. For some reason there's always
> been a split there in the kernel source.

That's because the linux kernel folks decided they didn't like the names
Dave Mills and folks chose for the API.

H


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