Fiorenzo Cattaneo wrote: > Yes correct. NTP behaves as intended. I called NTP issue as that's > what commonly called in the industry, ...
Agreed, but that's simply wrong. If you ran a PTP daemon instead of an NTP daemon you had exactly the same problems when the PTP daemon passes a leap second announcement to the kernel. > ... but in reality it's applications > which are unable to deal with time steppings. > > The LEAP second smearing that Google (and others too, now AWS as well) > is as you say, just a hack to avoid application problems. > > I am starting to realize I need to very precise (no pun intended) when > writing on this mailing list. ;-) > Please accept my apologies, this is my first thread I contribute to. No need to apologize, IMO. I also post only rarely on this list because most other folks here are much more familiar with the kind of stuff discussed here. Anyway, very interesting reading. ;-) Martin _______________________________________________ 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.
