[LEAPSECS] Time Synchronization in Financial markets

[Hal Murray]

imp at bsdimp.com said:
> Except, last I checked, NTP doesn't use this. And applications don't re-read
> the zone file info when they are updated, so long running applications will
> use the old data. Also, that file doesn't have then pending leap second this
> December in it since the date is too old. 

ntp has code to read that file.  It takes a
  leapfile <filename>
in your ntp.conf


If it's time for a new one, ntpd checks for a new version every 24 hours.

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