[ntp:hackers] smearing the leap second

Harlan Stenn stenn at ntp.org
Fri Jul 10 20:18:34 UTC 2015


Warner Losh writes:
> Drawing it back to the NTP world: NTP doesn=E2=80=99t have a
> time-scale parameter, so you have to be careful if you run your NTP
> servers on TAI time, GPS time, Julian time, or whatever other odd
> timescale you run it on. This has always surprised me.

This is what NTF will be doing with NTPv5.

Getting this going takes resources that are not currently available.

The goal and and intention is to get these resources available to NTF so
work like this can progress.
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Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org>
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