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Leap second reminder
From: Kevin Day <toasty () dragondata com>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:58:26 -0600
Just a reminder, at midnight UTC there's a leap second added to most time systems.
Some time systems will stop the clock at 23:59:59.999999 for 1 second, some will display 23:59:60 for a second.
Since the last leap second (1998), "leap second aware" time keeping systems(NTP, GPS, etc) have become much more prevalent, so it's much more likely this time that applications and NTP sync'ed devices will see a leap second happen(rather than have them manually corrected later, or not corrected at all). But, I'm not too sure how well everyone has tested applications and devices for how they handle the clock stopping for a second OR an "invalid" time of 23:59:60.
If anyone sees anything die at 00:00:00UTC I'd be interested to know. -- Kevin
Current thread:
- Leap second reminder Kevin Day (Dec 31)
- Re: Leap second reminder Kevin Day (Dec 31)
- Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP Kevin Day (Dec 31)
- Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP Roy (Dec 31)
- Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP Jared Mauch (Dec 31)
- Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP Chris Adams (Dec 31)
- Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP Michael Loftis (Dec 31)
- Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP Kevin Day (Dec 31)
- Re: Leap second reminder Kevin Day (Dec 31)
- Re: Leap second reminder Colin Johnston (Dec 31)
- Re: Leap second reminder Gerry Boudreaux (Dec 31)
- Re: Leap second reminder Deepak Jain (Dec 31)