Date: 14 Sep 2005 18:20:03 -0400
Message-ID: <20050914222003.23790.qmail@science.horizon.com>
From: linux@horizon.com
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NTP leap second question
Cc: george@mvista.com, johnstul@us.ibm.com
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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The simplest way to achieve this is to:
a) Hack ntpd to "not notice" the leap-second announce bits 01 in
   the packet header and pretend they're actually 00.  This will
   make it not insert a leap second.
b) Run it with the -x flag so that it always slews the time.

The real solution would be to implement Markus Kuhn's UTS proposal
(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/uts.txt), which is about the most
reasonable meshing of the expectation that there are 86400
seconds per day with the fact that there are not.
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