Re: Leap Second

2015-07-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Leif Pedersen 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 pre

Re: Leap Second

2015-07-02 Thread RW via freebsd-security
On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 21:52:46 -0400 Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > ntpd(8) has provision for specifying a leapsecond file which > > presumably makes it leap-second aware. I haven't looked into the > > details. > > The current NTP protocol, as implemented by ntpd, distributes > leap-secon