From: charles.unix.pro@gmail.com (Charles Anthony)
Subject: [TUHS] Leap Second
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:33:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV78LQxfhOpHpg3QZfJFX_=3Zme26x6YkbM=6Wedq_euhBtjA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1612240952310.43538@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> Let me be the first to say that the International Earth Rotation Service
> has announced that there will be a Leap Second inserted at 23:59:59 UTC on
> the 31st December, due to the earth slowly slowing down.
A year and half ago, a running Multics emulation (Multics, so slightly on
topic) was crashed by the leap second. An improbable race condition in a in
a messaging library used by the DPS8M emulator fired an assertion, bring
the whole thing down.
-- Charles
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-23 23:08 Dave Horsfall
2016-12-23 23:19 ` Michael Kjörling
2016-12-24 1:33 ` Charles Anthony [this message]
2016-12-28 23:59 Dave Horsfall
2016-12-29 0:21 ` Peter Jeremy
2017-01-03 10:44 ` sds
2017-01-03 15:06 ` Tony Finch
2017-01-03 15:29 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 13:32 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-04 23:13 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-05 14:29 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-04 15:54 ` sds
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