Re: [chrony-dev] Leap second handling

[Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Frank Muzzulini wrote:

> 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.

Well, my version of chrony seems to have handled it without any problem. If
you look at www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/chrony youwill see no evidence of any
problem .


> Best regards,
> Frank

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