Am 01.07.2011 12:35, schrieb Guy Harris:
On Jun 30, 2011, at 2:02 AM, walter harms wrote:
In Germany (at least) a lot of private clock use the dcf77 signal what is the official time signal for germany. And that honors leapseconds, sommertime etc. It is true that you can not get UTC clocks this is reasonable since most people expect there clock to have localtime.
"matches the clock on the wall" means "modulo the time zone you're in", i.e. the hour might not match UTC, but the minutes and seconds do.
So what do those clocks display in the second counter during a positive leap second? A value > 59?
I can only assume that they "stop" for one second. my ntpd says (normal use) "timecode="\x02D:01.07.11;T:5;U:13.21.36; S \x03"," and refclock_status="DST; TIME CODE; (LEAP INDICATION)", If i produces would like a simple solution for a wall clock i (!) would ignore anything > 59s, no comsumer would notice, that an update is missing for 1sec. re, wh