[time-nuts] June 30 2015 leap second
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Jan 9 22:30:36 UTC 2015
time at patoka.org said:
> 1s/24h = 1/86400 which is approximately 12ppm. That means that Aging Offset
> could slow down my clock for 1 second if I'll apply the maximum value one
> day ahead (roughly). I need to do some experiments first. ;-) Its looks too
> unreliable for me.
If you do it that way, your clock will be off by a whole second just before
midnight when the leap-second brings it back into sync. If you tweak your
clock from noon-noon, it will only be off by 1/2 second at midnight when the
sign-bit of the error flips.
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