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Google started doing leap second smearing [1] in 2008, which basically slows down each second over a 24-hour period, noon to noon UTC. ntpd also supports this
by gregmac 5y ago
Google started doing leap second smearing [1] in 2008, which basically slows down each second over a 24-hour period, noon to noon UTC.
ntpd also supports this [2], though I'm not sure how popular it is in practice. Anyone making use of this?
[1] https://developers.google.com/time/smear https://developers.google.com/time/smear
[2] https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/leapsmear.html https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/leapsmear.html