[LEAPSECS] Bloomberg announced its smear

[Michael Shields]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Peter Vince <petervince1952 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.  If there are no steps - how is it achieved?  Do you
> have a dedicated hardware clock(s) where the frequency of the master
> oscillator is wound down a bit, and your servers synchronise to that?

No, the atomic frequency standards and GPS receivers continue to tick
SI seconds, and the smear is implemented entirely in software.  Maybe
I am not understanding your question.  Why do you think it would be
necessary to step?