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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Sun Jul 1 10:06:51 2012

Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 10:05:54 -0400
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4FEFB944.2010006@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 04:43:16PM -1000, Paul Graydon wrote:
> On 6/30/2012 3:16 PM, Paul WALL wrote:
> > Comments?
>
> Not very well if you have a modern box (RHES/CentOS 6) and Java apps 
> running on them.  RHES/CentOS 5 merrily ignored it.  Worse, just 
> bouncing the Java stack didn't fix it, it required the box to be 
> rebooted. 

i didn't reboot:

/etc/init.d/ntp stop
date `date +"%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S"`
/etc/init.d/ntp start

seems to calm things right back to normal.

--jim

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