If you don’t have NTP enabled your clock may be wrong so it likely won’t impact 
you.

I’ve always had trouble getting NTP to work right over the years for a variety 
of reasons.

Just set something in cron to ntpdate -u your host on july 1st and you should 
be good.

- Jared

> On Jun 23, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Leonardo Oliveira Ortiz 
> <leonardo.or...@marisolsa.com> wrote:
> 
> Guys, if we don't have NTP enable on our Linux we still have problem with 
> leap second ??
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] Em nome de Jared Mauch
> Enviada em: terça-feira, 23 de junho de 2015 10:08
> Para: Harlan Stenn
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Assunto: Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
> 
> 
>> On Jun 22, 2015, at 7:06 PM, Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Time going backwards is deadly to a number of applications.
>> 
>> But apparently not to applications you care about.
> 
> Oh it is a problem, and most handle it very ungracefully, such as dovecot 
> which just dies:
> 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards
> 
> The issue is also most people are used to using rc.local or rc.* type scripts 
> to spawn a daemon which leads to the next major sysadmin/developer problem 
> with is handling error cases improperly or not at all.  (86401 is perhaps and 
> error case that people should test for).
> 
> - Jared

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