We need to test leap smearing :)

James Browning jamesb192 at jamesb192.com
Fri Dec 23 07:13:20 UTC 2022


> On 12/22/2022 7:49 PM PST Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Fred Wright said:
> > If you make it 24 hours, there's the question of whether that means 86400
> > seconds or 86401. :-)
> 
> That ones easy. It's 86400 smeared seconds and 86401 real seconds.
> 
> That's the whole point of smearing. :)

Stretching 86399 seconds need not apply.

Also, planning for no leap seconds is probably premature.
Could you check back when the race of mortal men is no
more or the sun has burned out? Maybe not even then.


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