From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: charles.unix.pro@gmail.com (Charles Anthony) Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:33:27 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Leap Second In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Dave Horsfall 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: