[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone clarify how the leap second is supposed to work? > > We have a GPS receiver which, I understand, already receives the leap > second indicator LI and knows the leap second will happen end of 2008 > UTC time. > > This GPS receiver speaks IRIG-B with IEEE 1344 extensions to our Time > Server. IEEE 1344 definition says the Leap Second Pending is set in > the 59 seconds before the leap second happens. > > So our Time Server will know nothing about the leap second until 59s > before the year end. By which time, NTP propagation down through the > stratum hierarchy will fail to notify all NTP clients before the year > end. > > In this scenario is it necessary to manually insert the leap second > into the Time Server?
You can download and install the NIST leap second file on your NTP server. See: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/ConfiguringNTP#Section_6.12. Be sure autokey is enabled since otherwwise the leap second file is not evaluated. Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
