Re: Aw: Re: [chrony-users] How to use Facebook's NTP-service correctly?

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On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 10:43:51AM -0700, Bill Unruh wrote:
> Would not using a smeared source for chrony which has implimented smearing
> just result in "double smearing" as chrony expects a step discontinuity and
> never gets it?
> So before 00:00:00  chrony would speed up the clock iand then discovered
> that no step arrived at 00:00:00 and find itself 1 sec
> out from its source?

A leap-smearing server suppresses the leap second bits in its
responses, but it could happen if the client knew from other time
sources or tzdata (enabled by leapsectz) that there was a leap second.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar


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