[LEAPSECS] happy anniversary pips

[Warner Losh]

On Feb 11, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> 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.


Does this distinction actually make a difference to the point I was making?

Warner