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

Tom Van Baak tvb at LeapSecond.com
Sat Jul 28 10:06:56 EDT 2007



> 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.


Steve,

Amazing. Do you have a URL that describes the problem
including source code?

/tvb



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