On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadow...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:23 PM, ITPFS oota <t-o...@dh.jp.nec.com> wrote: > > At 2012-06-30, leap second will be introduced. > > > > ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat > > > > Does Samba affect leap second? > > > I pretty sure this would be taken care of by ntp. I think Samba will be fine, but it's not really NTP handling this. NTP manages the correlations between the system's time functions and the hardware clock. It does *not* manage the mapping between the system time and other programs. I've personally had real adventures when programmers used their own private little date management routines with unpredictable results on leap days, much less leap seconds. I wouldn't anticipate this problem with Samba, but client systems with out-of-date libraries will need some attention if they're doing time-sensitive operations. Fortunately, there's a certain amount of slack, anyway, in operations done on network based file systems such as CIFS or NFS, in case one system edits a file and another system doesn't get the message from the file server about the change immediately. It could get adventuresome if there's a timestamp based semaphore used between two clients and one has an out of date set of "locale" utilities, though. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba