Joseph, Conversely, if a client syncrhonizes to a server strictly running TAI and never signals leaps, NTP will deliver TAI. NIST, USNO and I have discussed this serveral times and concluded the lessor of two evils is to continue with NTP on UTC.
Dave Joseph Gwinn wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Woolley) wrote: > > >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>>compliant. Is there a similar mod for NTP. I am >>>hoping that there is a mod that will cause NTP to >>>supply theoretical UTC (even if it is not ascci). >> >>Both POSIX and NTP use UTC. Your problem is that you are not using >>using UTC, but, rather, using TAI. > > > Actually, POSIX does *not* use UTC in the normal sense of the word, as > no leap seconds are applied. > > The fundamental POSIX timescale counts what amount to SI seconds from > the POSIX Epoch, 0h 0m 0s UTC 1 January 1970. Every day contains > exactly 86,400 seconds. > > That said, if one drives a POSIX box via NTP from a GPS timeserver set > to emit UTC (versus GPS System Time), time on the POSIX box will be > pretty close to UTC. > > Joe Gwinn _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
