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Re: Leap Second planned for 2016

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Sat Jul 9 00:33:15 2016

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Once upon a time, Javier J <javier@advancedmachines.us> said:
> Unless you are running something that can't handle leap seconds what do you
> really need to prepare for?

The last several leap seconds have exposed weird and hard to predict
bugs in various bits of software.  Those previous bugs have (probably)
all been fixed, but there will likely be new bugs that nobody tested
for.
-- 
Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>

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