[LEAPSECS] linux and the leap second that wasn't

[Steve Allen]

In other news, at the beginning of July a number of NTP servers
were erroneously indicating that there would be a leap second.

Any linux systems with relatively new kernels which were downstream of
such servers hung because of a kernel bug in handling the leap second.

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