January 01, 2006

The Tick vs. The Tick

I was distracted and didn't look at my watch at midnight. I don't think it counted the leap—it's now off from my computer by one second. Apparently, my computer did it's leap second jump earlier in the evening, which is also rather disappointing:

Dec 31 19:08:13 3po ntpd[5675]: no servers reachable
Dec 31 19:19:30 3po ntpd[5675]: synchronized to 128.101.101.101, stratum 2
Dec 31 19:19:30 3po ntpd[5675]: time reset -1.000308 s
Dec 31 19:23:47 3po ntpd[5675]: synchronized to 128.101.101.101, stratum 2

I didn't think that was supposed to happen, but I guess the leap second actually occurred at midnight UTC rather than midnight local time. Of course, midnight UTC was at 18:00 local time, so I wonder why it took over an hour for the reset to happen...

Update: Aha! It's a bug (maybe).

Posted by mike at January 1, 2006 12:51 AM | Internet
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