[LEAPSECS] Rubber seconds

[Sanjeev Gupta]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 06:54, Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask at develooper.com> wrote:


>

> On Jan 25, 2012, at 1:05, Michael Sokolov wrote:

>

> > I vigorously advocate only the general idea of rubberization.  The

> > exact mode of rubberization is up to each individual implementor in

> > practice.

>

> Why do we even try coordinating our clock-ticking if that's okay?

>

> > Alice and Bob may choose two different rubberization schemes, but the

> > magnitude of the difference between their clock readings can't exceed

> > 1 s at any point.

>

> How should public NTP servers behave during the leap second period if

> there's no agreed upon "rubberization scheme"?

>


Background that may be helpful: Ask runs/coordinates the
pool.ntp.orginfrastructure, providing NTP to the masses.

-- 
Sanjeev Gupta
+65 98551208     http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane
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