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From: mckim@flick.lerc.nasa.gov (Jim McKim)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ntpdate behave strangely
Date: 20 Dec 1993 17:01:00 GMT
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In-reply-to: crtb@helix.nih.gov's message of Mon, 20 Dec 1993 13:25:23 GMT

That's the number of leap seconds since 0 (1970).
I see the same effect when looking at files through nfs. An older machine (SunOS)
shows the same files with a fourteen second time difference.