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Everywhere Google documents the service, they clearly state you should not mix their smearing NTP servers with non-smearing NTP servers.



I'm not convinced it would do anything harmful, so long as you have enough NTP sources (which you should have anyway).

From their FAQ:

> We recommend that you do not mix smeared and non-smeared NTP servers. The results during a leap second may be unpredictable.

I read that as a soft SHOULD NOT, not MUST NOT. Would be a fun exercise to try doing it intentionally with common NTP implementations and see what happens.




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