Ascending from Lurk Mode, I have a (possibly stupid) question: according to
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leapsec.html and Tony Jones's book "The Story of Atomic Time" GPS time does not account for leap seconds, So why does it alert you to them? -eric On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Hal Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anybody running ntpd with their Z3801A? > > If so, please check your log files and tell me if you see a bogus leap second > at the end of the past several months. I've seen them for Aug, Sep, and Oct. > I think they are coming from my Z3801A, but it might be something else. > > The GPS satellites are now announcing a leap second that will happen at the > end of the year. The refclock driver passes that to ntpd and ntpd passes it > to the kernel and magic happens. > > I think the refclock-ntpd interface assumes the leap second will happen at > the end of the current month. NIST only announces leap seconds a month ahead > on WWVB and ACTS. > > The Oncore refclock driver has a filter to wait until the current month to > pass the info to ntpd. I'm working on something similar for the HP driver. > > -- > These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- --Eric _________________________________________ Eric Garner _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
