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

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> wouldn't that also mean that if your clock was 1s+ off  and NTP corrected
> it, a similar issue would occur?

No, there's something special about a leap second.  That leads to the
situation where, rather than 23:59:59 being followed by 00:00:00, it
is, instead, followed by 23:59:60, and apparently something got
deranged about that.
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