Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

2012-07-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:32:45 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:35:50 +0700 > > Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > >> Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your > >> infrastructure? > > > > Nope, that a murmur, not a pe

Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

2012-07-02 Thread Frank Peters
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:32:45 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > > Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your > infrastructure? > Being just a user of Linux desktop applications the leap-second issue has no relevance to my activities. However, I have read in several places that any potenti

Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

2012-07-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:35:50 +0700 > Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your >> infrastructure? > > Nope, that a murmur, not a peep, barely even a log entry anywhere. And > no whinging customers (surpri

Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

2012-07-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:35:50 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your > infrastructure? Nope, that a murmur, not a peep, barely even a log entry anywhere. And no whinging customers (surprisingly!) Our ntp servers just synced with the upstream stratum and

Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

2012-07-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your infrastructure? > > Did you do something special (like Google did) to prevent chaos? > > 'Leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com > http://m.wired.com/wire

Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

2012-07-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your infrastructure? > > Did you do something special (like Google did) to prevent chaos? > > 'Leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com > http://m.wired.com/wire

[gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

2012-07-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your infrastructure? Did you do something special (like Google did) to prevent chaos? 'Leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com http://m.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/leap-second-bug-wreaks-havoc-with-java-linux

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
There is a good article on current thinking in Washington Post : http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/25/AR2005122500496_pf.html It doesn't mention NTP, but that's implicit in the anti-leap position. -- ,,===

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Ian Hastie
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 06:59:20 -0500 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The details are in Appx E : it seems a warning bit is set manually > by the operator of the primary time server during the previous day Seems like I should have looked more carefully. > & one supposes -- hopes (smile) --

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
051225 Ian Hastie wrote: > 24 Dec 2005 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 & 060101 00 . >> Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? >> Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast >> & adjust ov

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Ian Hastie
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:33:26 -0500 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 & 060101 00 . > Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? > Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast > & adjust over a fe

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Stuart Howard
I do not have a solution to your question, but in general there has been some discussion in the press [UK] of late that covered this very issue. The link has some further links that may lead you to your answer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20051124.shtml stu On 25/12/05,

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-24 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:33:26PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 & 060101 00 . > Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? > Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast > & adjust over a few hours or doe

[gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-24 Thread Philip Webb
There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 & 060101 00 . Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast & adjust over a few hours or does something else alert it to correct things ? If the former, it could