[ntp:questions] WARNING: someone's faking a leap second tonight
jclerman0 at gmail.com
jclerman0 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 02:40:11 UTC 2012
On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 1:23:35 PM UTC-7, Marco Marongiu wrote:
> Hi all
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> This is just to warn you that there are now some NTP servers around the
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> globe spreading a leap second announcement for tomorrow 00:00:00 UTC
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> (so, basically, in a few hours now).
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> If you didn't take action before the leapocalypse last month, you better
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> hurry now.
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> Ciao
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> -- bronto
Yes, this affected us. Can someone explain why this was done? Was it designed to be a test of some kind? The Linux leap second kernel bug that was discovered a month ago was only patched on July 17; that patched kernel has presumably not made it to many (most?) people yet. So if it's a test it seems wildly premature.
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