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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:27:18 -0800
From: "john stultz-lkml" <johnstul.lkml@gmail.com>
To: linasvepstas@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> The long term solution would be write an RFC to extend
> NTP to also provide TAI information -- e.g. to add a
> message that indicates the current leap-second offset
> between UTC and TAI.

I believe Roman has already added this ability:
http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=153b5d054ac2d98ea0d86504884326b6777f683d;hp=9f14f669d18477fe3df071e2fa4da36c00acee8e

thanks
-john
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