Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

[Harlan Stenn <stenn () ntp org>]

Matthew Huff writes:
> A backward step is a known issue and something that people are more
> comfortable dealing with as it can happen on any machine with a noisy
> clock crystal.

A clock crystal has to be REALLY bad for ntpd to need to step the clock.

> Having 61 seconds in a minute or 86401 seconds in a day is a different
> story.

Yeah, leap years suck too.

And those jumps around daylight savings time.

H