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RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Sun Jul 1 12:45:23 2012
From: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
To: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 16:44:43 +0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy=20
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 10:03 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
>=20
>=20
> Talk about people not testing things, leap seconds have been around
> since 1961. There have been nine leap seconds in the last twenty
> years. Any system that can't handle a leap second is seriously flawed.
>=20
Roy, this was a problem in only certain kernel versions. Unfortunately the=
range of versions affected are pretty widely deployed right now. Earlier =
and later versions did not have the problem.
