[181446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Satchell)
Wed Jun 24 21:13:13 2015
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:13:11 -0700
From: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 06/24/2015 12:44 PM, Matthew Huff wrote:
> It looks like the safest thing for us to do is to keep our NTP
> servers running and deal with any crashes/issues. That's better than
> having to deal with FINRA.
For what it's worth, Red Hat pushed updates to NTP and to TZDATA. You
might want to check the documentation to see if the updates include sane
handling of the leap second.
(I run CentOS 7.1 and Fedora 20, which is where I saw the updates during
my morning maintenance.)