This begs the question - how the heck do timekeepers and politicians get away with last minute time changes?
Surely there's -some- pushback from technology related interest groups to try and get more than four weeks warning? :) Adrian On Mon, Jan 05, 2009, Frank Bulk wrote: > A report from a DHCP/DNS appliance vendor here: > ==================== > Several customers have reported a complete lock-up of their Proteus system > around the beginning of January 1st 2009. We believe that we have traced > this to a problem in the underlying kernel and NTP and the handling of the > date change associated with 2008 being a Leap Year and therefore having 366 > days. > > Several conditions must be met to trigger this problem: > 1. The Proteus was originally installed as v2.1.x or earlier. > 2. NTP is enabled as a client with 2 or more external source servers > defined. > 3. There is a discrepancy in the times reported back by these other NTP > servers. > > There is no correction available at this time, and the resolution is to > power cycle the system, after which it will run fine. > > If you experienced a similar problem at the indicated time, please submit a > trouble ticket so that we can confirm that this occurred on your system. > ==================== > > I don't know what the underlying OS is. > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Day [mailto:toa...@dragondata.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 4:42 PM > To: NANOG list > Subject: Leap second tonight > > > Just a reminder that there's a leap second tonight. > > Last time I watched for what happened on 01/01/2006, there was a > little bit of chaos: > http://markmail.org/message/cpoj3jw5onzhhjkr?q=%22kevin+day%22+leap+second+r > eminder+nanog&page=1&refer=cnkxb3iv7sls5axu > > I've been told that some of the causes of these problems are fixed on > any reasonably recent ntp distribution, but just in case, you might > wanna keep an eye out if you're seeing any weirdness. The worst damage > I'd heard from anyone after that event was their clock being > significantly off for several hours. > > -- Kevin > > > -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -