[ntp:questions] Question about 2008 leap second

Sam Nelson sam at ssrl.org.uk
Thu Jan 1 16:56:57 UTC 2009


In article <mg67l.646$Db2.192 at edtnps83>, unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca 
says...
> 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. 

Weird.  I have several such, of various ages, versions, and provenances, 
and they all seem perfectly OK.  At a guess, the problem will be 
version-specific.
-- 
SAm.




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