[LEAPSECS] Jan 1 leap second news

[Steve Allen]

On Tue 2013-01-01T10:37:05 -0800, Steve Allen hath writ:

> Apparently that is not the case for the new year bug in iOS

> http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/01/ios-6s-do-not-disturb-not-shutting-off-automatically-on-new-years-day/


In other news, xkcd's what if has asked about the leap second
http://what-if.xkcd.com/26/
and a discussion is running on the xkcd forum
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=99466

Also, the ntpd on one of our machines jumped three times by 1 second
in the 2 hours after 0 UT as it switched between various ntp servers.
This one was an entirely out-of-the-box vendor config for ntpd, so it
is likely our only one which might have encountered ntp pool servers
with the leap flag still erroneously set to 01.

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