[LEAPSECS] June 30 not leap

[Warner Losh]

On Jun 30, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Steve Allen wrote:

> At the beginning of the year there were reports of Linux lockups due to

> the combination of

> ) still unpatched kernels

> ) NTP pool servers with LI flags still set

> ) NTP daemons which only allowed June/December leaps

> ) old NTP daemons not configured to require a majority of LI flags

> It is 5 hours until the next opportunity to find out how many

> ill-configured systems take a dive.


It is gratifying to see how flawlessly this standard is implemented, despite over 40 years of it being the standard. I guess the far older expectation that every minute has 60 seconds is kinda deeply engrained...

Warner