[LEAPSECS] leap smear

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <alpine.DEB.1.10.1109151731130.30399 at dr-wily.mit.edu>, Keith Winstei
n writes:


>What they coyly omit is the duration of the window w (and the maximum slew 

>to the length of the second they apply in the middle of the window)!


Actually, the _really_ interesting thing is that they resort to using
a cos() function to herd the NTPD pll's in their system, but that
is more a testimony to how bogus that PLL code really is.

(Hint: Never leave out "maxpoll 6" on your server lines...)


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