* Majdi S. Abbas > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 08:33:14AM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote: > > Leap years and DST ladjustments have never caused us any major > > issues. It seems these code paths are well tested and work fine. > > I've seen quite a few people that for whatever reason insist > on running systems in local time zones struggle with the DST reverse > step. It's not nearly as much of a non-issue as you claim.
Read again, and note the word "us". I am describing my and my employer's experience with past DST changes and leap years, and those have indeed been completely uneventful. YMMV. > > The leap second in 2012 however ... total and utter carnage. > > Application servers, databases, etc. falling over like dominoes. All > > hands on deck in the middle of the night to clean up. It took days > > before we stopped finding broken stuff. > > "Total and utter carnage" is a bit of a stretch. As above, I am speaking only about how the 2012 leap second went down in our infrastructure. I stand by how I described the event. Again, YMMV. If you plan on let your infrastructure deal with the upcoming leap second head-on, I wish you the best of luck. Hopefully all the bugs from 2012 have been fixed. I, however, certainly have no intention of being the one to find out otherwise. Tore
