Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

[Matthew Huff <mhuff () ox com>]

Does anyone know what the latest that we can run our NTP servers and not distribute the LEAP_SECOND flag to the NTP 
clients?


> On Jun 24, 2015, at 2:33 PM, Tore Anderson <tore () fud no> wrote:
>
> * Majdi S. Abbas
>
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 08:33:14AM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> > > Leap years and DST ladjustments have never caused us any major
> > > issues. It seems these code paths are well tested and work fine.
> >
> >      I've seen quite a few people that for whatever reason insist
> > on running systems in local time zones struggle with the DST reverse
> > step.  It's not nearly as much of a non-issue as you claim.
>
> Read again, and note the word "us". I am describing my and my
> employer's experience with past DST changes and leap years, and those
> have indeed been completely uneventful.
>
> YMMV.
>
> > > The leap second in 2012 however ... total and utter carnage.
> > > Application servers, databases, etc. falling over like dominoes. All
> > > hands on deck in the middle of the night to clean up. It took days
> > > before we stopped finding broken stuff.
> >
> >      "Total and utter carnage" is a bit of a stretch.
>
> As above, I am speaking only about how the 2012 leap second went down
> in our infrastructure. I stand by how I described the event.
>
> Again, YMMV. If you plan on let your infrastructure deal with the
> upcoming leap second head-on, I wish you the best of luck. Hopefully
> all the bugs from 2012 have been fixed. I, however, certainly have no
> intention of being the one to find out otherwise.
>
> Tore