[time-nuts] leapseconds, converting between GPS time (week, second) and UTC

Jeff Woolsey jlw at jlw.com
Sat Jan 19 20:34:51 UTC 2019


Martin Burnicki wrote:

> Agreed, but that's simply wrong. If you ran a PTP daemon instead of an
> NTP daemon you had exactly the same problems when the PTP daemon passes
> a leap second announcement to the kernel.

PTP never does that.  IEEE-1588 has a different epoch but is based on
TAI, which has no leap seconds.


> >/I am starting to realize I need to very precise (no pun intended) when />/writing on this mailing list. /

Indeed.  There's likely to be more imprecision here because we can
measure it so tightly...

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