[LEAPSECS] Google, Amazon, now Microsoft

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <556ABECF.2050405 at edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes:

>My question is, if Azure is doing this, what is Windows itself doing?

No.

>> for that no new information is available and the most recent
>> guidance was that "somewhere between a second and an hour later
>> the clock will step a second".
>"most recent guidance" from whom?
>
>As I understand it, the clock would step a second when it syncs with 
>NTP, but note there are apparently different capability NTP clients in 
>various Windows versions. But what happens in different timezones?

Most Windows boxes don't run NTP.

Some of them run some oddball M$ time-sync protocol where they ask
their domain-controllers -- if they have one.

Where domain-controllers get their time is anyones guess.

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