[LEAPSECS] happy anniversary pips

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Tue Feb 11 16:48:32 EST 2014



> >> 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.


Not all of those either, if I understand correctly. Though, as
Warner points out, it may not make much difference to the point he
was making.

David.


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