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by jchavannes 3964 days ago
From the article:

> Usually when a leap second is almost due, the NTP protocol says a server must indicate this to its clients by setting the “Leap Indicator” (LI) field in its response. [..] Rather than doing this, we applied a patch to our internal NTP servers to not set LI, and tell a small “lie” about the time, modulating this “lie” over a time window w before midnight