From 5422e4902684039793d79d276fc0cc4b94001a58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miroslav Lichvar Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 13:14:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: improve leapsectz description --- doc/chrony.conf.adoc | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/chrony.conf.adoc b/doc/chrony.conf.adoc index b4bb235..c6702ea 100644 --- a/doc/chrony.conf.adoc +++ b/doc/chrony.conf.adoc @@ -872,6 +872,11 @@ It is also useful when the system clock is required to have correct TAI-UTC offset. Note that the offset is set only when leap seconds are handled by the kernel, i.e. <> is set to *system*. + +The specified timezone is not used as an exclusive source of information about +leap seconds. If a majority of time sources announce on the last day of June or +December that a leap second should be inserted or deleted, it will be accepted +it even if it is not included in the timezone. ++ An example of the directive is: + ----