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Isn't this what Google dubbed as smearing in their Spanner paper?
by pests 3y ago
Isn't this what Google dubbed as smearing in their Spanner paper?
- robocat 3y agoAFAIK they were using Linux, and they were still keeping all the servers synchronised (smearing at the same rate).
- rcxdude 3y agoKinda. Clock slewing is the term used in NTP-land and is basically about making this kind of adjustment for small time differences (generally you want to run a control loop that adjusts the rate of the internal clock so that the time difference goes to zero, as opposed to simply changing the time, as one will result in a smooth time reading while the other will cause periodic jumps). Smearing is basically pretending that the leap second doesn't exist and using clock slewing to paper over the difference.