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I remember hearing at a conference about 10 years ago that Google does not make use of leap seconds. Instead, they spread them across regular seconds (they modi
by sarusso 2y ago
I remember hearing at a conference about 10 years ago that Google does not make use of leap seconds. Instead, they spread them across regular seconds (they modified their NTP servers). I quickly searched online and found the original article [1].
[1] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-...
- jhalstead 2y agoTheir public NTP doc for the "leap smear" also includes some other leap smear proposals: https://developers.google.com/time/smear https://developers.google.com/time/smear