[LEAPSECS] Leap seconds ain't broken, but most implementations are broken

[Martin Burnicki]

Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
> [1] As much as I dislike the leap seconds; smearing is only appropriate
> if you specifically have chosen it so they’re not supposed to be in the
> pool.

Agreed. Smearing in the way it is currently done by some Google servers
(and ntpd, if configured accordingly) is just a hack to workaround
problems with applications that are unable to account for leap seconds
correctly, and should only be used in closed environments.

Martin