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SubjectRe: [PATCH -stable] ntp: Correct TAI offset during leap second
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On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 11:56 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> Hey Greg,
> Forgot to cc stable on this one. Thanks to Dave Jones for noticing!
> -john
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Richard Cochran<richardcochran@gmail.com>
>
> commit dd48d708ff3e917f6d6b6c2b696c3f18c019feed upstream.
>
> When repeating a UTC time value during a leap second (when the UTC
>
> time should be 23:59:60), the TAI timescale should not stop. The kernel
>
> NTP code increments the TAI offset one second too late. This patch fixes
>
> the issue by incrementing the offset during the leap second itself.
[...]

This doesn't apply to 3.2.y, unsurprisingly. Let me know if there are
any urgent leap second fixes that will be needed there.

Ben.

--
Ben Hutchings
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
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