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Re: Leap second tonight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jasper Bryant-Greene)
Wed Dec 31 18:27:44 2008
From: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@unleash.co.nz>
To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
In-Reply-To: <E3F66783-DC2C-4C25-B2B2-DF7F576D9A3B@dragondata.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:27:36 +1300
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Since leap seconds apply to UTC, won't the leap second be in about 22
minutes?
-jasper
On 1/01/2009, at 11:41 AM, Kevin Day wrote:
>
> Just a reminder that there's a leap second tonight.
>
> Last time I watched for what happened on 01/01/2006, there was a
> little bit of chaos: http://markmail.org/message/cpoj3jw5onzhhjkr?q=%22kevin+day%22+leap+second+reminder+nanog&page=1&refer=cnkxb3iv7sls5axu
>
> I've been told that some of the causes of these problems are fixed
> on any reasonably recent ntp distribution, but just in case, you
> might wanna keep an eye out if you're seeing any weirdness. The
> worst damage I'd heard from anyone after that event was their clock
> being significantly off for several hours.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
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