[LEAPSECS] happy anniversary pips

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20140211171627.GA73049 at walton.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone writes:

>> People have been working for the past 15 years to make leap seconds

>> better, yet in the last leap second all Linux kernels crashed due

>> to a subtle bug that is only triggered when there was a leap second.

>

>My understanding wasn't that all Linux kernels crashed.


Only the ones which cared enough about time-keeping to run NTPD.

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