[LEAPSECS] A standard for leap second smearing

[Stephen Colebourne]

On 28 September 2016 at 14:39, Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:
> Steve Summit <scs+ls at eskimo.com> wrote:
>> Me, I'd very much rather *not* add this sort of thing to (say)
>> NTP, because NTP doesn't have a problem with leap seconds.

This does seem true - hacking ntp feels like the wrong solution.

> Except that every leap second is screwed up by a large proportion of NTP
> servers...

True. But there are far fewer ntp servers than installations of an OS
kernel. So, it should be a more tractable problem to fix.

Stephen