[LEAPSECS] Improvements since 2012

[Tony Finch]

There were false leap second events six months ago. I didn't hear of any coinciding with the new year.

See the brief thread starting at https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2014-July/005130.html

Tony.
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> On 11 Jan 2015, at 21:17, Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat 2015-01-10T22:53:14 -0800, Ask Bjørn Hansen hath writ:
>> What's better about NTP and the NTP Pool since 2012?
> 
> This is a question better answered by David Malone based on his
> long-term monitoring of the leap flags in the NTP pool, but ...
> 
> At the end of 2012 July there were false leap second events from NTP
> pool servers which were inappropriately advertising that a leap was
> still pending.  This happened again at the end of 2012 August.  I
> don't know if those servers were upgraded to better versions of NTP or
> if they were simply excluded from the pool, but the false leap flags
> seem to be way down by now.
> 
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