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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (AP NANOG)
Mon Jul 2 11:48:28 2012
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:47:29 -0400
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Do you happen to know all the kernels and versions affected by this?
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Thank you,
Robert Miller
http://www.armoredpackets.com
Twitter: @arch3angel
On 7/1/12 12:44 PM, George Bonser wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roy
>> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 10:03 PM
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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