[ntp:hackers] smearing the leap second

Harlan Stenn stenn at ntp.org
Sun Jun 21 01:44:09 UTC 2015


Hal,

Email to you is bouncing.

Hal Murray writes:
> 
> brian.utterback at oracle.com said:
>> I would be concerned about losing the actual functionality of the
>> refid if we started monkeying with it.
> 
> Good point.
> 
> We could adopt the convention that a lower case "s" on the end of a
> normal 3 character refid would indicate smearing.  Such as GPSs.

What value do we get from this information?

How is that information passed on to clients?

H


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