I am in the middle of designing a distributed system that will use
NTP for synchronization. A key element of the system relies on a certain
machine being within 100ms of our reference server (Bancomm bc635LAN).
This threshold seems easy enough to maintain.
My question is what happens when a leap second is introduced into the system.
The bc635LAN only uses the IRIG-B info, so no leap second warning is distributed
and this machine is using a version one implementation of NTP.
I need to find out how long it takes for the machine to be synchronized within
the threshold after the leap second. I am willing to try to test this, but not exactly sure how. There is a Time Code Generator connected to the bc635LAN, so
should I just try to set the generator ahead one second and watch what happens?