[time-nuts] Amazon AWS time sync service

Michael Shields mshields at google.com
Tue Apr 30 17:37:53 UTC 2019


On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 5:00 PM Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com> wrote:
> My reading is that Amazon does their smear for 24 hours before the leap
> second, and Google does it for 10 hours before and 10 hours after.

The smear Amazon uses is twelve hours before and after, i.e., smeared
noon to noon.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/look-before-you-leap-the-coming-leap-second-and-aws/

Google will be using the same smear for future leap seconds.
https://developers.google.com/time/smear




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