[time-nuts] Leap seconds and POSIX

Steve Rooke sar10538 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 2 01:00:56 UTC 2009


2009/1/2 Joe Gwinn <joegwinn at comcast.net>:

> Platforms vary because NTP is at the mercy of the kernel developers.
>  From the standpoint of the average user, there is a transient error.
> Not that many average users will notice, so long as nothing crashes
> or hangs.
>
> In systems where the transient error and possibility of a crash or
> hang cannot be tolerated, one common dodge is to lie to NTP by
> configuring the GPS receiver and NTP timeserver to emit GPS System
> Time, and live with the fact that the local computer clocks are ~14+
> seconds off of UTC.  Purpose-built user displays are programmed to
> compute and use the correct time.

Examples please.

73, Steve
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