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When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu- bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs. ** Package changed: ubuntu => gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/970966 Title: UTC is incorrectly implemented; it does not handle leap seconds Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: UTC ticks SI seconds in step with TAI (International Atomic Time), but in order to keep in sync with UT1 which is defined by the earth's rotation, UTC is occasionally adjusted. In other words, in order to keep UTC 00:00:00 within a second of midnight at the Prime Meridian, leap seconds are added. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second So I tested it. I booted a live copy of Natty and went for a historic leap second: date --rfc-3339=seconds -s '2008-12-31 23:59:54+00:00'; hwclock -w while true; do date --rfc-3339=ns; sleep 0.25; done >> /mnt/time.log time.log: 2008-12-31 23:59:57.753497430+00:00 2008-12-31 23:59:58.006601830+00:00 2008-12-31 23:59:58.259626718+00:00 2008-12-31 23:59:58.512632697+00:00 2008-12-31 23:59:58.765677765+00:00 2008-12-31 23:59:59.018668172+00:00 2008-12-31 23:59:59.271679983+00:00 2008-12-31 23:59:59.524653233+00:00 2008-12-31 23:59:59.777697760+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:00.030698916+00:00 <-- Where is the leap second? 2009-01-01 00:00:00.283682058+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:00.536682453+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:00.789704596+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:01.042716625+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:01.295720967+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:01.548714966+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:01.801750574+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:02.054801900+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:02.307836286+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:02.560842969+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:02.813878513+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:03.066923251+00:00 2009-01-01 00:00:03.319920865+00:00 So either there should be a 23:59:60 leap second, or the system timezone should not be called UTC, but the more ambiguous term 'Universal Time'. I also tried 1998 and 2005. A leap second has been announced for this June 30. I think that issues with time can potentially cause or trigger serious bugs elsewhere. So I'm marking this as a security vulnerability just- in-case. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/970966/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
