[time-nuts] Leap second coming...

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Jun 29 19:54:57 UTC 2012


> I seem to remember someone from NPL telling me that they actually increment
> the each of the last 10 seconds before the epoch by 100mS, rather than
> putting in one whole second. 

Google has hacked their internal NTP servers to spread the extra second over 
several hours.  That's slow enough so that the clients can track it.  The 
good news: no funny seconds.  The bad news: clocks will be off by up to a 
half second while this is happening.


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