Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

[Jim Mercer <jim () reptiles org>]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 04:43:16PM -1000, Paul Graydon wrote:
> On 6/30/2012 3:16 PM, Paul WALL wrote:
> > Comments?
>
> Not very well if you have a modern box (RHES/CentOS 6) and Java apps 
> running on them.  RHES/CentOS 5 merrily ignored it.  Worse, just 
> bouncing the Java stack didn't fix it, it required the box to be 
> rebooted. 

i didn't reboot:

/etc/init.d/ntp stop
date `date +"%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S"`
/etc/init.d/ntp start

seems to calm things right back to normal.

--jim

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