Leap seconds

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

I am confused about leapseconds. My understanding is that this confusion 
is not an unusual state. :)

I'm running a Raspberry Pi 1 Raspian Stretch Stratum one server, built 
to the spec of the Stratum-1-Microserver HOWTO on the ntpsec.org site. 
The example/suggested ntp.conf file in that document makes no mention of 
leapseconds. https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/ntp_conf.html lists the 
leapfile directive, but the ntp.conf manpage does not, only mentioning 
it in regard to crypto functions. Though both mention the 
leapsmearinterval directive, making clear not to run that on a public 
server.

Among the tools included with the NTPsec suite is ntpleapfetch, which 
would imply (to me at least) that this is a task that should be 
performed - though I'm also unclear on appropriate intervals. Perform it 
one minute before midnight on June 30 and Dec 31? Check monthly on the 
rare possibility of a leapsec at some other time?

So, I'm confused. Should I employ ntpleapfetch from cron and include the 
leapfile directive in my ntp.conf? Or is it best to exclude all of this 
on a public NTPsec server?

I'm interested in conforming to best-practices.

-- 
Paul Theodoropoulos
www.anastrophe.com