Re: Ambiguous NTP timestamps near leap second

From: Steve Allen <sla_at_UCOLICK.ORG>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:25:14 -0800

On Thu 2006-02-16T19:12:30 +0000, Markus Kuhn hath writ:
> No reply from an NTP server shall ever represent any point in time
> between 23:59:60 and 24:00:00 of a UTC day. If a client requests an
> NTP timestamp and the response would represent a point in time during
> an inserted leap second, then this request shall be ignored.

Minor point, I think it has to read more like this

        between 23:59:60 of a UTC day that ends with a positive leap
        second and 00:00:00 of the subsequent UTC day.

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