[LEAPSECS] today's leap second

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Wed Aug 1 12:44:51 EDT 2012


As noted in the NTP discussion list some of the NTP servers had their
leap indicator set during yesterday
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/comp.protocols.time.ntp/vhVlH4ENsJQ

Some users of Linux-based MythTV experienced the leap bug again
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/524941

The discussions indicate (as is painfully often the case) that the
commenters have not read what ITU-R 460 says about when leaps are
allowed, and the conspiracy theories are already appearing about
"a very clever denial-of-service attack."

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