On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 2:01 AM Fiorenzo Cattaneo <[email protected]> wrote:
> headache to worry about (remember all the bugs that pop up even when > we switch in and out of DST, like applications crashing because NTP > applies the 1 hour change in a discontinous manner NTP does no such thing. NTP's timescale is in 136-year eras that begin on 1900-01-01 (meaning that it rolls in 2036, which will make an interesting dry run for the UNIX epoch rollover in 2038). As the author says, ``the NTP timescale [...] knows nothing about days, years or centuries, only the seconds since the beginning of the current era which began on 1 January 1900. '' (http://doc.ntp.org/4.1.2/leap.htm). Any DST adjustment is done by the OS where NTP is running. NTP does know leap seconds even if the OS where the daemon is running gets confused. Always fun to watch the clock strike 23:59:60. -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
