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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 10:37:09PM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> wouldn't that also mean that if your clock was 1s+ off  and NTP corrected
> it, a similar issue would occur?

That would cause a 'time was set' event, which makes things work (hence
why date -s could fix systems affected by this).

leap seconds really are special.

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Len Sorensen
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