[LEAPSECS] Leap seconds still broken

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Jan 1 23:47:39 EST 2017


On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:
> Another example of software crashing when time seems to go backwards:
> https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affected-cloudflare-dns/

The root cause of this turned out to be a bogus assumption. Go's time
is implicated this time. The fix was trivial, but it is yet another
example of the trickiness of getting time right, and making sure
things work when you are dealing with standards that don't acknowledge
the existence of leap seconds....

Warner


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