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SubjectRe: NTP leap second question
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On Gwe, 2005-09-16 at 14:58 -0700, George Anzinger wrote:
> What I am asking is when is the flag sent to the kernel. My reading of
> the kernel code says that it will insert the second on the second roll
> immeadiatly after the flag is set.

Kernel clock ticks are not adjusted or slewed or anything else for a
leap second when correctly configured. UTC leap second adjustment is
performed by glibc for locales that expect it (which I think is all of
them)

Alan

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