[ntp:questions] Question about 2008 leap second

Unruh unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca
Thu Jan 1 16:34:26 UTC 2009


Hans =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen?= Jakobsen <hjj at wheel.dk> writes:

>On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:15:22 -0000, Sam Nelson wrote:
>> In article <slrnglpbkr.11et.hjj at freesbee.wheel.dk>, hjj at wheel.dk says...
>>> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:13:51 GMT, lguzmanh at mercurio.cl wrote:
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/31/zune_death/
>>> claims that zune are locking up due to leap second.
>>
>> No such claim appears to be made there.  The problem appears to be 
>> something to do with the handling of the end of a leap _year_.
>Seems that my brain has not waked up yet.

There are a number of reports in debian newsgroups of Debian machines locking up
on the leap second. 




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