[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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