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REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

Subject: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
From: jared at puck.nether.net (Jared Mauch)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:07:42 -0400
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> On Jun 22, 2015, at 7:06 PM, Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> wrote:
> 
> Time going backwards is deadly to a number of applications.
> 
> But apparently not to applications you care about.

Oh it is a problem, and most handle it very ungracefully, such as dovecot which just dies:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards

The issue is also most people are used to using rc.local or rc.* type scripts to spawn a daemon which leads to the next major sysadmin/developer problem with is handling error cases improperly or not at all.  (86401 is perhaps and error case that people should test for).

- Jared

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