[ntp:questions] Leap Second

Unruh unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca
Tue Dec 2 19:22:57 UTC 2008


michael.froment at gmail.com writes:

>Hi all,
>Since yesterday I saw the leap second Flag set on some servers of
>ntp.pool.org. I'am quite surprise because the leap second add to be
>set the 31/12/2008 and not the 1/12/2008.
>Is it normal????

The leap is announced at the beginning of the month to make sure that all
ntp clients know about it. It always occurs at the end of the month ( I
think ntpd has it hard coded as the end of June or Dec, but in principle it
could be any month)

>Michael




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