[ntp:questions] Watching the leap.

Simon Lyall simon at darkmere.gen.nz
Sun Jan 1 00:14:40 UTC 2006


Well I'm not sure my machines all worked correctly today. Running ntpd 
4.1 and 4.2 on Debian/Ubuntu boxes that are stratum 3 and 4 I didn't see 
any leap second indicators from most of my peers. And the time went all 
boringly:

Sun Jan  1 12:59:59 NZDT 2006
Sun Jan  1 12:59:59 NZDT 2006
Sun Jan  1 12:59:59 NZDT 2006
Sun Jan  1 12:59:59 NZDT 2006
Sun Jan  1 13:00:00 NZDT 2006
Sun Jan  1 13:00:00 NZDT 2006
Sun Jan  1 13:00:01 NZDT 2006

Watching my peers now I can see more and more of them with offsets of 
around 1 second so I guess in a few minutes my machines will decide they 
are right and advance by themselves.

But not as tidy as I would have hoped. I think it is going to take 1024 
seconds per stratum for many machines to get updated.

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