Re: [LEAPSECS] 2-hour leap smear in Japan

2015-06-23 Thread Kevin Birth
@leapsecond.commailto:leapsecs@leapsecond.com Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 9:26 AM To: Leap Second Discussion List leapsecs@leapsecond.commailto:leapsecs@leapsecond.com Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] 2-hour leap smear in Japan On Jun 23, 2015, at 6:00 AM, Kevin Birth kevin.bi...@qc.cuny.edumailto:kevin.bi

Re: [LEAPSECS] 2-hour leap smear in Japan

2015-06-23 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hi Kevin, Kevin Birth wrote: For anyone curious about how Japan is handling the leap second, since it is occurring at 8:59:59 in the morning on a business day, the following two articles refer to the solution that Japanese financial exchanges are using a mini leap smear spread over two hours

[LEAPSECS] 2-hour leap smear in Japan

2015-06-23 Thread Kevin Birth
For anyone curious about how Japan is handling the leap second, since it is occurring at 8:59:59 in the morning on a business day, the following two articles refer to the solution that Japanese financial exchanges are using―a mini leap smear spread over two hours before the opening bell. The

Re: [LEAPSECS] 2-hour leap smear in Japan

2015-06-23 Thread Rob Seaman
On Jun 23, 2015, at 6:00 AM, Kevin Birth kevin.bi...@qc.cuny.edu wrote: For anyone curious enough to search for information online about the leap second in Japan, the Japanese term for leap second is: うるう秒 And indeed Google and Jisho translate that as leap second. For some reason Bing

Re: [LEAPSECS] 2-hour leap smear in Japan

2015-06-23 Thread Kevin Birth
@leapsecond.commailto:leapsecs@leapsecond.com Subject: [LEAPSECS] 2-hour leap smear in Japan For anyone curious about how Japan is handling the leap second, since it is occurring at 8:59:59 in the morning on a business day, the following two articles refer to the solution that Japanese financial exchanges

Re: [LEAPSECS] 2-hour leap smear in Japan

2015-06-23 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 03:47:49PM +0200, Martin Burnicki wrote: I really doubt that real NTP clients can follow a server smearing a leap second over 2 hours only. You mean a client using default configuration? With a reduced polling interval I think it shouldn't be a big problem to follow