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Precision timekeeping

1972 even though the historical situation is messy, partly because neither UTC nor TAI is well-defined for sufficiently old timestamps. +
  • The +NTP Leap Second File covers the text file +leap-seconds.list, which lists the currently known leap seconds. +The IERS maintains this file, and a copy is distributed by +tzdb for use by NTP implementations like +classic +ntpd +and NTPsec. +The tz database also distributes leap second +information in a differently-formatted leapseconds text file, +as well as in the "right" configuration in binary form; for +example, right/UTC can be used +by chrony, +another NTP implementation.
  • Leap Smear discusses how to gradually adjust POSIX clocks near a leap second so that they disagree with UTC by at most a @@ -1089,7 +1103,7 @@

    Precision timekeeping

    sixty seconds. This approach works with the default tz "posix" configuration, is supported by -the NTP reference implementation, NTP implementations, supports conversion between UTC and smeared POSIX timestamps, and is used by major cloud service providers. However, according to