Re: NTP leap second question

[George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>]

linux@horizon.com wrote:
> 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.

Would a rude and crude way to do this be to shut down ntpd at say 
11:55PM and restart it at 00:01?

What I am asking is when is the flag sent to the kernel.  My reading of 
the kernel code says that it will insert the second on the second roll 
immeadiatly after the flag is set.


> 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.
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George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
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