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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: Peter Lothberg <roll () Stupi SE>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 16:30:58 CEST
If you want to run a Google-patched NTP server and talk to it, you're welcome to. The rest of us would prefer to just get it right, so we don't have to get lied to.
The timescale implementation in NTP is correct accoring to how UTC is defined. I suggest leaving it alone, chances of improving on this part over what Mills has done in half a lifetime is slim. (For those who want to state more incorrect things on this matter, let me just point out that Dave Mills received the PTTI award 2006, so NTP's implementioon of time has sufficient peer review of people who defined how UTC/TAI works.. ) The time format has a best_before date like Unix, so it will require outside information to tell what modulos of time we are in after it runs out of bits. At the IETF TICTOC BOF (a long time ago, and no_one payed attention, as we where being DOSed by the 1588 and mobile people) it was suggested to make a timescale represenation that would be future prof and work on places where time has a different rate compared to earth at sea level. -Peter
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- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
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- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Leo Bicknell (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jay Ashworth (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? valdis . kletnieks (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steven Bellovin (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steven Bellovin (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Brett Frankenberger (Jul 04)
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