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I do not have a solution to your question, but in general there has |
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been some discussion in the press [UK] of late that covered this very |
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The link has some further links that may lead you to your answer. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20051124.shtml |
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On 25/12/05, Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:33:26PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> > There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 & 060101 000000 . |
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> > Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? |
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> > Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast |
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> > & adjust over a few hours or does something else alert it to correct things ? |
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> > If the former, it could create problems for those running experiments; |
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> > if the latter, does anyone know how it is done ? |
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> > The last leap second was 1998/9 , before NTP was widely used. |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Unix_time |
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> These _might_ help you understand this confusing subject. For me |
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> they just gave me a headache. The best I can tell POSIX handling |
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> of time-keeping is just broken. In short, don't worry too much |
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> about it. If you really want to know what time it is use GPS time |
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> (a sane TAI-based system), then convert that to UTC. |
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> Jonathan Kollasch |
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"There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand |
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binary, those who don't" |
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