Re: Ntpdate and sntpclock differ by 20+ seconds

On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Ben Mesander wrote:

> Matthias Andree writes:
>  > If that matters, you better make sure to regulate the clock oscillator's
>  > temperature... has the next leap second be announced at all?
> 
> One-second accuracy doesn't require an ovenized oscillator.

Correct. If however one second in 63,072,000 seconds (that's two years
without leap days and leap seconds) matters, then that's 15 ppb. That's
deeply into the range where temperature coefficients of oscillators
matter.

> Yes. There will be no leap second this year. However note that the lack
> of leap seconds in the last three years will cause certain GPS receiver
> chipsets to do glitchy things this november while recovering time.

Personally, I don't care, for lack of GPS receivers, and official time
is not determined from GPS in Germany, see http://www.ptb.de/ --
department 4.3 IIRC

-- 
Matthias Andree