[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers (POSIX time)
Paul Sheer
p at 2038bug.com
Tue Feb 22 21:03:48 EST 2011
You don't need to buy anything.
You could hack regular NTP to do the same thing.
It just needs to remove the leap second bit and accumulate 1 second
every time it sees the bit coming from the upstream server.
In actual fact we need BOTH timescales for backward compatability....
i.e. to have a migration path to this new correct timescales.
-paul
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 15:19 -0800, Steve Allen wrote:
> On Tue 2011-02-22T18:01:00 -0500, Keith Winstein hath writ:
> > If you just need GPS-CC time, you're right. Adding 19 seconds gets you
> > within 1 microsecond of "TAI(USNO,MC)".
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think if you
>
> 1) buy a Meinberg NTP server
> 2) configure it to emit GPS time instead of UTC
> 3) get the zoneinfo source code files
> 4) edit the "leapseconds" file and delete all leaps before 1980
> 5) compile the zoneinfo files yourself, asking for the "right" ones
> 6) install the resulting zoneinfo files
> 7) set the system to use the "right" timezone
> 8) set the system to use your Meinberg stratum 1 NTP server
>
> then you have a system which is running its time_t based on GPS time,
> therefore does not have issues with leap seconds resetting the clock,
> and which produces a correct local time string for every time zone.
>
> The trick being that you are not POSIX-compliant and cannot exchange a
> time_t value with any POSIX-compliant system.
>
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