Hal Murray wrote:
>When were there enough (Unix?) boxes on the net running NTP and keeping good 
>enough time to notice things like leap seconds?

De facto, late 1990s, I think.  What one would notice would depend rather
on one's habits; early adopters vs late adopters of NTP.

>I should go browse the old RFCs and see when the API for telling the kernel 
>about pending leap seconds was published.

RFC 1589, D. Mills, "A Kernel Model for Precision Timekeeping", 1994-03.

-zefram
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