[LEAPSECS] Did John Oliver just save the leap-second ?

[Harlan Stenn]

Arbitrary timescales are not useful with NTPv4 and before.

They will be with NTPv5 and later (if I have anything to say about it -
a pretty safe bet) as this capability is part of the General Timestamp
API that NTF is working on, as the GTSAPI will be used by NTP.  It will
also have a portable library implementation for user-level stuff, and I
expect we'll have GTSAPI implementations built-in to both a linux kernel
and a BSD kernel.

It will take additional resources that we do not yet have to make these
things happen.
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Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org>
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