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From: linux@horizon.com
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: george@mvista.com, johnstul@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: NTP leap second question
Date: 14 Sep 2005 18:20:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050914222003.23790.qmail@science.horizon.com> (raw)

The simplest way to achieve this is to:
a) Hack ntpd to "not notice" the leap-second announce bits 01 in
   the packet header and pretend they're actually 00.  This will
   make it not insert a leap second.
b) Run it with the -x flag so that it always slews the time.

The real solution would be to implement Markus Kuhn's UTS proposal
(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/uts.txt), which is about the most
reasonable meshing of the expectation that there are 86400
seconds per day with the fact that there are not.

             reply	other threads:[~2005-09-14 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-14 22:20 linux [this message]
2005-09-16 21:58 ` NTP leap second question George Anzinger
2005-09-17  1:23   ` Alan Cox
2005-09-17  1:05     ` George Anzinger
2005-09-17  1:53       ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-14 17:48 [RFC][PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup (v. A1) john stultz
2005-09-14 17:53 ` john stultz
2005-09-14 18:39   ` NTP leap second question George Anzinger
2005-09-14 18:54     ` john stultz
2005-09-15  6:49       ` Ulrich Windl
2005-09-15 17:21         ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-15 18:35           ` Alan Cox

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