I am seeing several NTP servers -- both strata 1 and 2 -- reporting leap-seconds in the middle of the month of January. The 31 December 2008 leap-second has already passed. More important, the standard requires all leap-seconds to occur at the end of the last minute of a calendar month with a convention that they occur at the end of a calendar quarter.
NTP servers that report leap-seconds within a month are buggy and should be fixed. I have attempted to send E-mail messages to the operators of buggy servers that I have detected. This is not always successful because listed E-mail addresses are sometimes obsolete. Since I have not (and will not) test all NTP servers, operators reading this newsgroup should check their own servers to ensure they are not reporting false leap-seconds. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Don't ask "Why is there road rage?" Instead, ask "Why NOT Road Rage?" or "Why Is There No Such Thing as Fast Enough?" <http://www.rossde.com/roadrage.html> _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
