Your "friend" got 15 from using GPS epoch seconds - 0000 (midnight) on Jan 6 1980.
Leap seconds started being added in 1972. So there are more leap seconds on the NIST calendar than on the GPS calendar, since GPS started with leap seconds under its belt.
TAI - UTC is now 35 seconds. So in another sense there have been 35.
Normally leap seconds are derived as changes to UTC - what computers are supposed to be synced to by the worldwide NTP service. 24 leap seconds.
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I understand the NTP protocol, so keeping system time updated is not a problem.
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Hi All,
We are running the HP-UX 11.11 and Linux AS 3.0. so, shall we need to make any changes for leap second i.e. insert the leap second on 1st Jan 2006 or does the system have some setup which would take care of this automatically.
Please advise.
Regards,
Inder (1 Reply)
Hi All,
We are running the HP-UX 11.11 and Linux AS 3.0. so, shall we need to make any changes for leap second i.e. insert the leap second on 1st Jan 2006 or does the system have some setup which would take care of this automatically.
Please advise.
Regards,
Inder (2 Replies)
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