G+: Google's smeared leap-second NTP service is now publicly …

David Coles
Google's smeared leap-second NTP service is now publicly available.
Rather than having a 61 second minute, this service smears out the difference in the 10 hours before and 10 hours after by running the clock ever so slightly slower (0.0014% slow to be exact). This is the same time used in all Google APIs.

For more technical details check out https://developers.google.com/time/

Making every (leap) second count with our new public NTP servers
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Rae Yip
Just in time for the leap second this New Year's Eve. Also, still waiting for something better to replace NTP; HTTPStime just seems like a circular dependency...