[LEAPSECS] Microsoft won't resolve leap seconds

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20100128053410.GA9629 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:


>In short, Windows XP comes with an implementation of NTP which

>"cannot reliably maintain sync time to the range of 1 to 2 seconds.

>Such tolerances are outside the design specification of the W32Time

>service."


Dont draw any premature conclusions from a single vendors virtual
monopoly on incompetence.

Meinberg has a pretty good NTPD port for windows servers, which as
far as I know does something semi-sensible with leap-seconds.

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