[LEAPSECS] 2-hour leap smear in Japan

[Martin Burnicki]

Hi Kevin,

Kevin Birth wrote:
> For anyone curious about how Japan is handling the leap second, since it
> is occurring at 8:59:59 in the morning on a business day, the following
> two articles refer to the solution that Japanese financial exchanges are
> using a mini leap smear spread over two hours before the opening bell.

For what it's worth, I've just submitted a patch for ntpd which 
optionally supports Google leap smear:

"Bug 2855 - leap smear support for ntpd"
http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2855

I really doubt that real NTP clients can follow a server smearing a leap 
second over 2 hours only.

Martin
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