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<div>Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:<br></div>
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<div>> I wonder who first proposed and implemented the 24-hour linear scheme<br></div>
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<div>> Google plans to switch to next time. It's not always that easy to change<br></div>
<div>> Google's collective mind. Was it someone at Akamai? Amazon? Microsoft?<br></div>
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<div>When I did a survey of leap smear schemes in September, only Amazon was doing -12 to +12 smear. Google originally did a sinusoidal smear, but I gather that interacted worse with ntpd and large polling intervals than piecewise linear.<br></div>
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<div><a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/leapsecs@leapsecond.com/msg06152.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/leapsecs@leapsecond.com/msg06152.html</a><br></div>
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<div>> Come to think of it, we should document leap smearing. Proposed patch<br></div>
<div>> attached.<br></div>
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<div>It's probably worth noting that ntpd now has an open implementation of leap smear. Here's a link to the documentation in their Bitkeeper repo:</div>
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<div><a href="http://bk1.ntp.org/ntp-stable/README.leapsmear">http://bk1.ntp.org/ntp-stable/README.leapsmear</a><br></div>
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<div id="sig49431681"><div class="signature">Tony.<br></div>
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