[chrony-dev] Leap second handling

[Frank Muzzulini <frank.muzzulini@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

sadly I was not able to observe the leap second in June and I also found 
that the online documentation gives little information about how chrony 
handles a leap second. I guess it forwards the information to the 
kernel, doesn't it?

You may have heard about the the problems some linux systems had and the 
solution implemented by Google. (If you haven't, look at 
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Leap-second-Linux-can-freeze-1629805.html). 
I wonder if chrony could add something like that as an option, too.

Alternatively I can also imagine a simpler way: Pass the leap second 
announcement to clients as usual and locally adapt the time as if it 
were an error of one second, encountered at 0:00 UTC. If clients use the 
same setting, it will work neatly for all anyway.

Best regards,
Frank

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