Leif Pedersen <bi...@hobbiton.org> writes: > 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?
No. POSIX deals with leap seconds by pretending they don't exist. > I tried setting /etc/localtime to UTC including leap-seconds [...] > However, ntpd continues to sync the clock (from pool.ntp.org) in > ignorance of leap-seconds. [...] Can ntpd undo the leap-seconds > inserted by ntp.org? Or is there another NTP pool that would work for > me? NTP works in UTC as well. The pool does not set the clock; all it does is coordinate servers who claim to know the correct time. I guess you could try to convince the ISC and JHU to add a TAI offset field to the next version of the NTP protocol... DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ 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"
