[LEAPSECS] more poison in the NTP pool

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Sep 2, 2012, at 9:00 AM, leapsecs-request at leapsecond.com wrote:


>> Does kinda show that it isn't trivial to get this right all the time...

> 

> With a notable percentage of the NTP servers always indicating leap

> it's another instance of "Don't believe everything the internet says."


While true, I think that's missing the point Warner was making: If people running a time server can't reliably get the time server itself to manage the leap seconds properly, what are the odds really that everyone else will get it right – ever.

(As a side note I am planning to have the NTP Pool system monitor the leap flag, though it's not clear how much that will really help: https://github.com/abh/ntppool/issues/55 )


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