[ntp:questions] Leap second functional question

Unruh unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca
Tue Feb 19 16:49:53 UTC 2008


Paul.Croome at softwareag.com writes:

>See http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html.
>That would seem to be the authoritative source.

This of course does not tell you how ntp handles the leap second in case
the kernel is not able to . Also the document only handles the case ofthe
insertion of a second, not the deletion of a second. I assume ntp simply
steps by a second. 


>Paul




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