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On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 07:00:12AM -0700, Bill Unruh wrote:
> I am very uncomfortable with these kinds of leap smoothing procedures. In
> particular, since there is no standard as to the smoothing, this risks
> instability as a whole variety of "smoothed" servers all fight each other in
> trying to control the time. I think before heading down this path, we need an
> rfc to both standardize the smoothing, and a flag to warn clients that that server is
> smoothing.
Just an update, ntpd apparently support a leap smear too. There is a
discussion on the ntp hackers list. I've suggested to use a specific
reference ID to allow admins to detect that the server is not serving
true time and I'll make that change in chronyd.
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Miroslav Lichvar
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