gradual clock adjust

Posted Jul 2, 2012 23:11 UTC (Mon) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)
In reply to: Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Potential fix for leapsecond caused futex issue (v2) by chloe_zen
Parent article: Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Potential fix for leapsecond caused futex issue (v2)

FWIW, using NTP to gradually account for a leap second is what Google decided to do:

<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-an...>

Note that they don't explicitly say over what time window they adjust the time, but my impression from the above article is that it's done over a few hours, not over an entire day.