From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling)
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:29:23 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] Leap Second
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Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:

> sds <stephen.strowes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Important question: did anybody have an "exciting" new year because of a leap
> > second bug?
>
> I've been collecting failure reports on the LEAPSECS list

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affected-cloudflare-dns/

"go" seems to have a related bug.

BTW: The POSIX standard intentionally does not include leap seconds in the UNIX 
time interface as it seems that this would cause more problems than it claims 
to fix.

Jörg

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