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Re: [time-nuts] new year crashes

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Hal Murray
Mon, Jan 2, 2017 4:19 AM

Are there "leap second" test sets that non time nuts could use to generate
leap second events during pre commissioning tests ?  (I'm envisioning some
form of NTP server that could generate leap second events on command ?)

There is a file of leap seconds.  You can edit it to add your own.  Then the
normal ntpd will make leap seconds.

That only makes them at midnight UTC.

The file has a checksum.  You either have to write some code to compute the
new checksum, or comment it out and use a version of ntpd that accepts a leap
file without a checksum.

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mark@alignedsolutions.com said: > Are there "leap second" test sets that non time nuts could use to generate > leap second events during pre commissioning tests ? (I'm envisioning some > form of NTP server that could generate leap second events on command ?) There is a file of leap seconds. You can edit it to add your own. Then the normal ntpd will make leap seconds. That only makes them at midnight UTC. The file has a checksum. You either have to write some code to compute the new checksum, or comment it out and use a version of ntpd that accepts a leap file without a checksum. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.