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Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:07:42 -0400
On Jun 22, 2015, at 7:06 PM, Harlan Stenn <stenn () 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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- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND, (continued)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Tore Anderson (Jun 24)
- RE: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Matthew Huff (Jun 24)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Tore Anderson (Jun 24)
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- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Tore Anderson (Jun 24)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Gary E. Miller (Jun 24)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Chris Adams (Jun 24)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Stephen Satchell (Jun 24)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Nick Hilliard (Jun 24)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Matthew Huff (Jun 24)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Jared Mauch (Jun 23)
- RES: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Leonardo Oliveira Ortiz (Jun 23)
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- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Jay Ashworth (Jun 23)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Gary E. Miller (Jun 23)