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by jlgaddis 1615 days ago
> ... quality time-source ...

Except they decided to "smear" leap seconds [0], instead of handling them appropriately.

For that reason, if you "require correct timestamps for legal purposes" [1], you may want to make sure that you aren't using Google's NTP servers.

(N.B.: Amazon (AWS) too, FWIW.)

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[0]: https://developers.google.com/time/smear

[1]: https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/leapsmear.html