On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Peter Jeremy <pe...@rulingia.com> wrote: > > On 2015-Jul-01 12:46:21 -0500, Leif Pedersen <bi...@hobbiton.org> wrote: > >Is there a reasonable way to enable awareness of leap-seconds while syncing > >with ntpd? That is to say, how can I get the system to include leap-seconds > >in calculating `date +%s`, without having `date` be off by 26[1] seconds? > > ntpd(8) has provision for specifying a leapsecond file which presumably > makes it leap-second aware. I haven't looked into the details. >
>From the docs, I'm fairly sure that the leap-second files don't stop NTP from fudging hardware clock, and only help it do so more gracefully. > There's also posix2time(3) to convert between a TAI-based time_t and a > POSIX-based time_t. posix2time(3) doesn't seem to have anything to do with setting the hardware clock. > > -- > Peter Jeremy -- As implied by email protocols, the information in this message is not confidential. Any middle-man or recipient may inspect, modify, copy, forward, reply to, delete, or filter email for any purpose unless said parties are otherwise obligated. As the sender, I acknowledge that I have a lower expectation of the control and privacy of this message than I would a post-card. Further, nothing in this message is legally binding without cryptographic evidence of its integrity. http://bilbo.hobbiton.org/wiki/Eat_My_Sig _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
