Yay! Google is popularizing my preferred solution to leapsecond hell and making it easy for everyone to use/sync: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/making-every-leap-second-count-with-our-new-public-NTP-servers.html …
The idea is to smooth across 20 hours rather than 20 minutes for a more stable clock rate, I think.
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who cares, it's a 1 second delta. anything needing more precision than that is already using TAI & their own atomic clocks.
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It allows matching/comparing timestamps across internet with precision exceeding network latency.
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That doesn't work if every host is doing its own skew, possibly with different algorithms, to smooth out leap seconds.
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