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Leap seconds

Posted Jul 2, 2012 20:11 UTC (Mon) by midg3t (subscriber, #30998)
In reply to: Kernel prepatch 3.5-rc5 by mikemol
Parent article: Kernel prepatch 3.5-rc5

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

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