[LEAPSECS] tinkering with time ?

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 1 Feb 2011 at 10:31, Stephen Colebourne wrote:


> Today, there is no leap second data, but zoneinfo data requires

> running a script at the low JDK level and a JVM reboot. This is a

> tricky system level operation that operators dislike. 


Well, Windows users, for one, are very much used to being forced to 
reboot constantly, every time one of a myriad of software packages 
insists on upgrading itself, or the system just crashes, hangs, or 
becomes unstable.

It's a more alien concept to the Unix/Linux crowd, to be sure.


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