From: Miroslav Lichvar Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:26:37 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Update documentation X-Git-Tag: 1.27-pre1~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0b72b2940a5755ca5700cfb62389d55aebdd72f8;p=thirdparty%2Fchrony.git Update documentation --- diff --git a/chrony.texi b/chrony.texi index 7f3d5710..923028da 100644 --- a/chrony.texi +++ b/chrony.texi @@ -1753,6 +1753,7 @@ This directive is used to set the name of the timezone in the system tz database which @code{chronyd} can use to find out when will the next leap second occur. It will periodically check if the times 23:59:59 and 23:59:60 are valid on Jun 30 and Dec 31 in the timezone. +A useful timezone is @code{right/UTC}. This is mainly useful with reference clocks which don't provide the leap second information. It is not necessary to restart @code{chronyd} if the tz database is updated with a new leap second at @@ -1764,6 +1765,14 @@ An example of the command is leapsectz right/UTC @end example +The following shell command verifies that the timezone contains leap +seconds and can be used with this directive + +@example +$ TZ=right/UTC date -d 'Dec 31 2008 23:59:60' +Wed Dec 31 23:59:60 UTC 2008 +@end example + @c }}} @c {{{ local @node local directive @@ -4165,6 +4174,9 @@ Residual freq : 0.004 ppm Skew : 0.154 ppm Root delay : 0.373169 seconds Root dispersion : 0.024780 seconds +Update interval : 64.2 seconds +Leap status : Normal + @end example The fields are explained as follows.