[ntp:questions] Question about 2008 leap second

Unruh unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca
Thu Jan 1 21:24:26 UTC 2009


Sam Nelson <sam at ssrl.org.uk> writes:

>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.

Or it could be some sort of race condition which the system only
occasionally loses-- ie, the hardest of bugs to track down.


>-- 
>SAm.




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