[time-nuts] Leap second to be introduced at midnight UTC December 31 this year

Noah noah.robin at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 12:41:03 UTC 2016


Trimble Res-SMT-GG GNSS receivers are affected; in my case, they're installed in Spectracom SecureSyncs. And yes, the extra second got into system time which broke 1 or 2 things. 

--n

> On Jul 20, 2016, at 5:26 PM, Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com> wrote:
> 
> Yo Noah!
> 
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:12:14 -0400
> Noah <noah.robin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> First time poster; just subbed. Not a time hobbies the; my team @
>> work runs NTP infrastructure. So , that's a brief intro out of the
>> way...
> 
> Yes, a few of us NTP people here.  We are several orders of magnitude
> coarser tham a true time-nut.
>> 
>> Discovered that my commercial GPS appliances opted to *apply*
>> yesterday's pending leap second, which has made for an interesting
>> day.
> 
> Got any details?  GPS model?  Did it get past your NTP into system time?
> 
> I'm passing this info onto NTPsec devel folks.  Time to 'Name and Shame".
> 
> RGDS
> GARY
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