Re: [tz] Google public NTP servers to 'smear' leap seconds.

Tony Finch wrote:

When I did a survey of leap smear schemes in September, only Amazon was doing -12 to +12 smear.

Amazon has 10x the capacity of the next dozen cloud service competitors, according to Gartner. Microsoft (which Gartner says is #2) also uses a 24-hour smear, according to Google. So to some extent Google may be saying that it'll bow to the market leaders.

It's probably worth noting that ntpd now has an open implementation of leap smear.

Thanks, proposed patch attached. This also tones down the wording a bit, responding to John Hawkinson's comments (which I plan to reply to shortly).