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Kernel prepatch 3.5-rc5

Posted Jul 2, 2012 16:33 UTC (Mon) by mikemol (subscriber, #83507)
In reply to: Kernel prepatch 3.5-rc5 by dgm
Parent article: Kernel prepatch 3.5-rc5

My expectation was that the leap second would be *communicated* as a time difference. I.e. have the stratum N time sources appear to themselves to have gotten 1 second behind their stratum N-1 time sources, and slew back to resync.

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Leap seconds

Posted Jul 2, 2012 20:11 UTC (Mon) by midg3t (subscriber, #30998) [Link]

Impending leap seconds are explicitly signaled in NTP payloads on the day of the leap second. Search for "Leap Indicator" in RFC 2030.