[LEAPSECS] global outage, or not

[Steve Allen]

By now Google is in the midst of their sinusoidal leap smear,
so they won't go down.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html

The linux kernel hackers are pretty sure that they fixed the
multiprocessor leap second lockup that happened 3.5 years ago.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479765

I'd love to learn whether Yahoo!  has implemented a remedy for their
300000 machines in order to avoid another global outage for 100
million customers
http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/questionnaire/result.php

According to the prose in some news articles this is all due
to the "breaking action of the tides"  :-\

Happy leap second!

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