[181708] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: leap second outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johnny Eriksson)
Wed Jul 1 05:53:38 2015
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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 11:53:32 WET DST
From: Johnny Eriksson <bygg@cafax.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 1 Jul 2015 07:38:49 +0200 (CEST)
Reply-To: Johnny Eriksson <bygg@cafax.se>
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Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> This is similar to the jiffycounter wrapping, since this doesn't happen
> that often, it's not commonly tested for. Good way is to start the jiffy
> counter so it wraps after 10 minutes of uptime. That way you'll run into
> any bugs quickly. Either we should abolish the leap second or we should
> make leap second adjustments (back and forth) on a monthly basis to
> exercise the code.
You could do this, move back on even-numbered months and forward on odd.
Any real adjustment could be done via inhibiting the monthly change...
> This is a hard sell though...
'fraid so.
> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
--Johnny
