In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes: >On Jan 13, 2006, at 6:26 AM, Richard Langley wrote:
>I won't claim to know the intrinsic importance attached to this. >Critical systems may depend on the information. But is it fair to >sum up the situation by saying that a leap second triggered a couple >of bugs (or perhaps one common bug), they were detected, have been >fixed, and affected data products have been remediated? Also, it >appears that some other data products were unaffected? > >So, the issue has been resolved - would likely have been resolved >sooner if a leap second had occurred earlier - and is no longer >directly pertinent to a discussion of future leap seconds? Yeah, right "This goes counter to my claims so it is of no importance". Sorry, things don't work that way Rob. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
