[tz] Google public NTP servers to 'smear' leap seconds.

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Dec 1 21:10:45 UTC 2016


Thanks for the heads-up. It looks like this is the last time Google will 
use a 20-hour linear smear for a leap second; next time Google plans to 
use a 24-hour linear smear, as that is more popular elsewhere. They are 
proposing the latter as a standard practice everywhere. See:

https://developers.google.com/time/smear



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