> Being an EDT/EST snob, I had my cron job all set for 11:59p tonight to > record the leap second. But then reading an article today on the topic,
I think "tonight" is a day early. The leap second happens at the end of the month, not early on the last day of the month. > But now I'm wondering, will NTP pickup the change at 8:00p EDT? Or must I > do something to catch the change? It's all supposed to do the right thing, but nobody will be surprised if there are glitches. The idea is that some GPS clocks and similar tell you a leap second is coming. You can also get it from a file. On the last day of the month, that flag gets passed to the kernel and on to other NTP servers. If a server sees that the majority of the servers it is watching has their leap-pending flag set, it will set it's flag and pass it on. You can check your server: ntpq -c "rv 0 leap" $SERVER -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
