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

[Hal Murray]

leapsecs-request at leapsecond.com said:
> Right, that's where I say its incredible nothing was done since 1972.  The
> Leap Second history is fundamental, and it seems to me an obvious  missing
> link. How could it have gone ignored all this time? 

Back in the old days, computer clocks weren't accurate enough to care about 
leap seconds.

In the early 80s, the NTP equivalent at Xerox was only good to a second and 
it was only used at boot time.

By the time computers and networks (and a few geeks) were good enough to 
notice, it was too late.

Anybody know when NTP supported it's first leap second?


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