[154368] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Jul 3 07:03:46 2012
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:02:58 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbXMeb_F00CMeusuX2i4_2nxM74mJF0G4gKF8awpY119fw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Someone should write a dastardly system clock daemon to cause the
> insertion of frequent spurious positive leap seconds, followed by the
> spurious insertion of negative leap seconds.
>
> For testing purposes... any application which crashes under such a
> test, should be repaired or not used in any critical capacity
For testing applications you can try libfaketime. Testing systems is a bit
harder...
https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime
Tony.
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