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

[Anthony de Boer]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Well it seems that you had to have something using the high res timers
> in order to hit it.

There's reason to use those in software video playback, animation,
interactive games, and the like.  However, I'm suspicious of whether most
Java software (especially stuff running on the server side) had a valid
excuse and _really_ wonder what MySQL was smoking.  Most well-written
software should wait on data arriving in one form or another and consume
zero CPU cycles meanwhile.

I'm also thinking that integer time should probably have followed a true
linear model, and put leap seconds in the tz data instead.

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Anthony de Boer
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