[LEAPSECS] more poison in the NTP pool

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Sat Sep 1 10:05:46 EDT 2012


On Aug 31, 2012, at 11:58 PM, David Malone wrote:


> I have 4-year versions of the "fraction of servers advertising

> leapbits" graph here:

>

> http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/time/leap2012/ntp-leapbits.png

>

> It seems from this that there are always a few people advertising

> leap seconds when they shouldn't be...


Fascinating...so it's more an adjustment in pool pH than the more dramatic "poison". The community is simply paying closer attention now due to all hoopla, while David was previously prudently monitoring the temporal pH with leapbit litmus.

Rob




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