[LEAPSECS] Did John Oliver just save the leap-second ?

[Martin Burnicki]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> I'm not quite sure about the consequence of this one:
>
> 	https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/437
>
> But it seems possible that large fraction of Linux systems have
> been following Googles leap-smear without knowing it because of
> systemd.

One of my colleagues has also monitored time{1,2,3,4}.google.com, and we 
saw that those servers were obviously smearing in the way explained in
http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.de/2015/05/Got-a-second-A-leap-second-that-is-Be-ready-for-June-30th.html

In fact I was pretty surprised to see this since one of the last 
paragraphs on the Google states:

"Google does not offer an external NTP service that advertises smeared 
leap seconds."

So I had assumed smearing Google servers were only visible from within 
their cloud services.

Martin
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