On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Majdi S. Abbas <m...@latt.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:33:35PM -0400, Tyler Haske wrote: >> 4 years. These things are supposed to be synced to a NTP source >> anyway. >> >> Easiest solution is just remove leap second functionality from >> mainline code, and make it something you have to special-compile for. > > Please reconcile these two statements. > > Thanks, > > --msa
Someone running an NTP Server connected to a cesium clock could run the leap-second time code. Since its *their job* to have the correct time, they can do all the fancy rarely used things that make parts of the Internet die every couple of years.