On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Yury Shefer <shefys@gmail.com> wrote:
Google announced public NTP service some time ago: https://developers.google.com/time/
Leap smearing does look interesting as way to sidestep the potentially-jarring leap-second problem ... but a note of caution. I've had multiple time geeks tell me that leap-smearing is pretty different from strict-RFC NTP, and Google themselves say on that page: "We recommend that you don’t configure Google Public NTP together with non-leap-smearing NTP servers." So it looks like we shouldn't mix and match. And since most folks should probably want some heterogeneity in their NTP, it may be a little premature to jump on the leap-smear bandwagon just yet. I'm vague on the details, so I could be wrong. Does anyone know of any other (non Google) leap-smearing NTP implementations? Royce