From 48bce351bfea7e4a0c3aa2012b5e64bc773494da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miroslav Lichvar Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 17:13:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: describe use case for leapsecmode ignore option --- doc/chrony.conf.adoc | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/chrony.conf.adoc b/doc/chrony.conf.adoc index 3568edb..21d2ce6 100644 --- a/doc/chrony.conf.adoc +++ b/doc/chrony.conf.adoc @@ -1099,7 +1099,11 @@ clock will be off for a longer time. On Linux with the default *ignore*::: No correction is applied to the clock for the leap second. The clock will be corrected later in normal operation when new measurements are made and the -estimated offset includes the one second error. +estimated offset includes the one second error. This option is particularly +useful when multiple *chronyd* instances are running on the system, one +controlling the system clock and others started with the *-x* option, which +should rely on the first instance to correct the system clock and ignore it for +the correction of their own NTP clock running on top of the system clock. {blank}:: + When serving time to NTP clients that cannot be configured to correct their