Linux blamed for 'leap second' that humbled Internet - Page 1 - Enterprise Infrastructure

[Christopher Browne]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ori Idan <ori-RdxWQVHs3mjDN57Tih+YPw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:03:16PM +0300, Ori Idan wrote:
>> > Strange that I did not notice it at all, I have two servers running
>> > Ubuntu
>> > 10.04 kernel version 2.6.32
>> > My servers are running apach and mysql and few scripts in PHP or perl.
>> > Is it only with version 3.0.x of the kernel?
>>
>> Are you running ntp?
>>
>> If not, how would you even know a leap second should happen?
>
> I am using NTP.

Which implies that the interaction is curiouser still...

Nobody knows that there's a leap second unless they're running some
software that's aware of that.  (ergo, NTP.)

And the software on the other end has to have some "falsehood believed
about time"...

http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
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