On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Rob Seaman wrote:
>
> It's not the correct time under the current standard if the
> timekeeping model doesn't implement leap seconds correctly. I don't
> think this is an impossible expectation, see http://
> www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/exec.html, starting with the Levine and
> Mills PTTI paper.
As
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html shows, NTP (with kernel
support) is designed to stop the clock over the leap second, which I
don't call "correct". Without kernel support it behaves like a "pinball
machine" (according to Mills).
Tony.
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