[LEAPSECS] happy anniversary pips
    Poul-Henning Kamp 
    phk at phk.freebsd.dk
       
    Tue Feb 11 12:27:42 EST 2014
    
    
  
In message <20140211171627.GA73049 at walton.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone writes:
>> People have been working for the past 15 years to make leap seconds
>> better, yet in the last leap second all Linux kernels crashed due
>> to a subtle bug that is only triggered when there was a leap second.
>
>My understanding wasn't that all Linux kernels crashed.
Only the ones which cared enough about time-keeping to run NTPD.
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