[LEAPSECS] metafilter followup of the leap rant

[Warner Losh]

On Jan 1, 2014, at 11:13 PM, Steve Allen wrote:

> It remains less clear what sorts of strategies are being adopted by

> admins of systems that must perform real-time operations, for those

> admins are not talking about their coping mechanisms.


Well, they have on this list. Among the documented coping mechanisms are:

(1) shut down over leap seconds. This is what many drug and other time-traceable manufacturers do.
(2) Spend a boatload of cash on testing that vendors actually work over leap seconds through expensive simulation.
(3) Hope for the best, and have more people on duty/call than normal.

Warner