From 7078c9cdcd091daf038b3fd73494c5f7718c3c25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 23:01:40 -0800 Subject: [PROPOSED] * tz-link.htm: Mention NTP support for leap smearing. (Thanks to Tony Finch.) --- tz-link.htm | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm index 9c92ca6..afd8fa9 100644 --- a/tz-link.htm +++ b/tz-link.htm @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ content="Sources for time zone and daylight saving time data"> - + POSIX clocks near a leap second so that they disagree with UTC by at most a half second, even though every POSIX minute has exactly sixty seconds. This approach works with the default tz -"posix" configuration, and has become popular among cloud -service providers. +"posix" configuration, is supported by +the NTP reference implementation, and is used by major +cloud service providers.
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