* Stefan Schlesinger <sts@ono.at>
On 25 Jun 2015, at 03:14, Damian Menscher via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.h... comes dangerously close to your modest proposal.
I wonder why Google hasn't published the patch yet. Leap smear sounds like the sane way to do leap seconds, and it would't break software at all, because time adjustments in the sub-second area are proven to work quite well.
It's implemented in chronyd versions 2.0 and up, for what it's worth. The required config directive is "leapsecmode slew". There's a nice blog post explaining how this feature, as well as some other approaches on how to deal with the leap second, work here: http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/06/01/five-different-ways-handle-leap-s... Tore