Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Mike Hammett na...@ics-il.net said: v5 is 2.4, v6 3.3.5 Don't know why a 3.3.5 kernel would have deadlocked; don't think there are any known issues that would cause that, unless there are Mikrotik specific patches that caused the problem. I believe the bug from the 2008 leap

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Mike Hammett
- From: Chris Adams c...@cmadams.net To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 1:17:06 PM Subject: Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Once upon a time, Mike Hammett na...@ics-il.net said: v5 is 2.4, v6 3.3.5 Don't know why a 3.3.5 kernel would have deadlocked; don't think there are any

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Chris Adams c...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Mike Hammett na...@ics-il.net said: v5 is 2.4, v6 3.3.5 Don't know why a 3.3.5 kernel would have deadlocked; don't think there are any known issues that would cause that, unless there are Mikrotik

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Guilherme Ganascim
I had problems with Leap Second with mikrotik in versions 6.29.1, 6.28, 6.5 and other versions. Configured NTP Client in all of them. Anyone else had this problem? On Jun 19, 2015, at 19:30, Baldur Norddahl baldur.nordd...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 June 2015 at 23:58, Harlan Stenn

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Mike Hammett na...@ics-il.net wrote: It looks to have only affected the CCR line and only those running the NTP and not the SNTP package. That's Mikrotik's position, but reports of some users contradict their version (both in the need for NTP and for only

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Mike Hammett
guilherme.ganas...@persistelecom.com.br To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 8:08:28 PM Subject: Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND I had problems with Leap Second with mikrotik in versions 6.29.1, 6.28, 6.5 and other versions. Configured NTP Client in all of them. Anyone else had

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Michel Luczak
I had problems with Leap Second with mikrotik in versions 6.29.1, 6.28, 6.5 and other versions. Configured NTP Client in all of them. Anyone else had this problem? Apparently 6.27 was the safe version to have (no issues on our CRS and CCR routers). Regards, Michel

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Michel Luczak fr...@shrd.fr wrote: I had problems with Leap Second with mikrotik in versions 6.29.1, 6.28, 6.5 and other versions. Configured NTP Client in all of them. Anyone else had this problem? Apparently 6.27 was the safe version to have (no

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Rubens Kuhl rube...@gmail.com said: Not quite. Reported crashes included 6.27, so it's possible that some other mitigating factor helped not to crash (like using SNTP instead of NTP, although there seems to be people with crashes using SNTP or no SNTP/NTP at all). These are

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Mike Hammett
: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 1:20:30 PM Subject: Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Chris Adams c...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Mike Hammett na...@ics-il.net said: v5 is 2.4, v6 3.3.5 Don't know why a 3.3.5 kernel would have deadlocked; don't think

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Mike Hammett
: Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Once upon a time, Rubens Kuhl rube...@gmail.com said: Not quite. Reported crashes included 6.27, so it's possible that some other mitigating factor helped not to crash (like using SNTP instead of NTP, although there seems to be people with crashes using SNTP

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Harlan Stenn
Mike Hammett writes: It looks to have only affected the CCR line and only those running the NTP and not the SNTP package. Any idea what version of NTP or what their configuration looked like? H

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-07-01 Thread Mike Hammett
Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org To: Mike Hammett na...@ics-il.net Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:43:43 PM Subject: Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Mike Hammett writes: It looks to have only affected the CCR

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-25 Thread Tore Anderson
* Stefan Schlesinger s...@ono.at On 25 Jun 2015, at 03:14, Damian Menscher via NANOG nanog@nanog.org wrote: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html comes dangerously close to your modest proposal. I wonder why Google hasn't published the patch

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-25 Thread Tony Finch
Damian Menscher via NANOG nanog@nanog.org wrote: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html comes dangerously close to your modest proposal. Also http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/06/01/five-different-ways-handle-leap-seconds-ntp/ Tony. --

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-25 Thread Stefan Schlesinger
On 25 Jun 2015, at 03:14, Damian Menscher via NANOG nanog@nanog.org wrote: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html comes dangerously close to your modest proposal. Damian I wonder why Google hasn't published the patch yet. Leap smear sounds like the

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-25 Thread Damian Menscher via NANOG
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Stefan Schlesinger s...@ono.at wrote: On 25 Jun 2015, at 03:14, Damian Menscher via NANOG nanog@nanog.org wrote: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html comes dangerously close to your modest proposal. I wonder

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Tore Anderson
* Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org Matthew Huff writes: A backward step is a known issue and something that people are more comfortable dealing with as it can happen on any machine with a noisy clock crystal. A clock crystal has to be REALLY bad for ntpd to need to step the clock. Having

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 24/06/2015 04:33, Harlan Stenn wrote: A clock crystal has to be REALLY bad for ntpd to need to step the clock. or really virtual. Nick

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Tony Finch
Philip Homburg pch-na...@u-1.phicoh.com wrote: For UTC the analog approach would be to keep time in TAI internally and convert to UTC when required. This is much less of a solution than you might hope, because most APIs, protocols, and data formats require UT. (Usually not UTC but a

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Matthew Huff
Yes, the clock has to be bad. Been there, done that, especially early Sun x86 servers. Leap years and DST are both things people and developers are aware of outside of technology, leap seconds, not so much. On Jun 23, 2015, at 11:33 PM, Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org wrote: Matthew Huff

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Philip Homburg
In your letter dated Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:33:14 +0200 you 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 seem to remember that they were not tested that well on a certain brand of mobile devices a few years

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Gary E. Miller g...@rellim.com said: Depends on what your Stratum-1 is syncronized to. Some GPS time sources pass on the leap indicator to NTP. For example, the SiRF-3 GPS, connected by way of gpsd, to ntpd will pass on the leap second. Yep, my ancient old SVeeSix has been

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Philip Homburg
In your letter dated Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:05:34 +0100 you wrote: Philip Homburg pch-na...@u-1.phicoh.com wrote: For UTC the analog approach would be to keep time in TAI internally and convert to UTC when required. This is much less of a solution than you might hope, because most APIs,

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 06/24/2015 12:44 PM, Matthew Huff wrote: It looks like the safest thing for us to do is to keep our NTP servers running and deal with any crashes/issues. That's better than having to deal with FINRA. For what it's worth, Red Hat pushed updates to NTP and to TZDATA. You might want to check

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Damian Menscher via NANOG
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 7:17 AM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: So, what we should do is make clocks move. 9 slower half of the year (and then speed back up) so that we're really in line with earth's rotational time. I mean we've got the computers to do it (I think most RTC only

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread 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

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Majdi S. Abbas m...@latt.net said: Total and utter carnage is a bit of a stretch. Linux hosts that ran applications dependant on nanosleeps needed reboots. Note that this wasn't an issue in 2009, because the poorly tested change in question hadn't yet been made to

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Tore Anderson
* 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

RE: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Matthew Huff
: Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND * Matthew Huff I saw that, but it says the bits are set before 23:59 on the day of insertion, but I was hoping that I could shut it down later than 23:59:59 of the previous day (8pm EST). The reason is FINRA regulations. We have to have the time synced once per trading

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Tore Anderson
* Matthew Huff Does anyone know what the latest that we can run our NTP servers and not distribute the LEAP_SECOND flag to the NTP clients? From http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/NTPRelatedDefinitions: Leap Indicator This is a two-bit code warning of an impending leap second to

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Matthew Huff
Does anyone know what the latest that we can run our NTP servers and not distribute the LEAP_SECOND flag to the NTP clients? On Jun 24, 2015, at 2:33 PM, Tore Anderson t...@fud.no wrote: * Majdi S. Abbas On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 08:33:14AM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote: Leap years and DST

RE: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Matthew Huff
    | Fax:   914-694-5669 -Original Message- From: Tore Anderson [mailto:t...@fud.no] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 3:07 PM To: Matthew Huff Cc: nanog2 Subject: Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND * Matthew Huff Does anyone know what the latest that we can run our NTP servers and not distribute

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Tore Anderson
* Matthew Huff I saw that, but it says the bits are set before 23:59 on the day of insertion, but I was hoping that I could shut it down later than 23:59:59 of the previous day (8pm EST). The reason is FINRA regulations. We have to have the time synced once per trading day before the open

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Tore Anderson
* Matthew Huff That won't work. Being internally sync'ed isn't good enough for FINRA. All the machines must be synced to an external accurate source at least once per trading day. That was why I proposed to ntpdate on your (upstream-free since the 29th) NTP server(s) sometime on the 30th.

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-24 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Tore! On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:57:28 +0200 Tore Anderson t...@fud.no wrote: If you run your own straum-1 servers, can't you just opt not to configure leapfile? Depends on what your Stratum-1 is syncronized to. Some GPS time sources pass on the leap indicator to NTP. For example, the SiRF-3

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread Jared Mauch
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:

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jun 23, 2015, at 1:23 PM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: NTP causes jumps - not skews, right? ntpdate jumps, ntpd will try to make small adjustments within a range unless -x is specified. Many operating systems have -x as a default. - Jared

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 23, 2015 6:26 AM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: Blocking NTP at the NTP edge will probably work fine for most situations. Bear in mind that your NTP edge is not necessarily the same as your network edge. E.g. you might have internal GPS / radio sources which could

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 23/06/2015 18:23, shawn wilson wrote: NTP causes jumps - not skews, right? this is implementation dependent. For normal clock differences on ntpd, if you start it with the -x parameter, it will always slew and never step. If you start ntpd without the -x parameter, if the calculated correct

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread Harlan Stenn
Matthew Huff writes: A backward step is a known issue and something that people are more comfortable dealing with as it can happen on any machine with a noisy clock crystal. A clock crystal has to be REALLY bad for ntpd to need to step the clock. Having 61 seconds in a minute or 86401

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread Mel Beckman
Harlan, Why should your head explode? Possibly you’re overthinking the problem. And there is no reason (or simple way I can envision) to test my plan, as you advise, in advance. I will just block NTP in my border router temporarily. No need to make a mountain out of this molehill. Cisco, and

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread Mel Beckman
Harlan, Help me understand why there is a serious risk of going back in time. I acknowledge that there is a remote chance of a backstep, but the probability seems very low. Suppose I disable my NTP service five minutes before a positive leap second occurs, so that no server in my network can

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread Harlan Stenn
This stuff can make my head explode. When a leap second is added, like on 30 June 2015 at the last second of the day, POSIX insists that the day still have 86400 seconds in it. This makes the day longer by one second, so time has to either slow down or move backwards. The dumb way to do this is

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 23/06/2015 10:25, Mel Beckman wrote: Why should your head explode? Possibly you’re overthinking the problem. The problems don't relate to Harlan overthinking the problem. They relate to developers underthinking the problem and assuming that all clocks are monotonic and that certain rules

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org You misunderstand the problem. :) The problem is not clock skips backward one second, because most of the time that's not what happens. The problem is that most software does not handle it well when the clock ticks ... :59 :60

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Jay! On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:02:50 -0400 (EDT) Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org You misunderstand the problem. :) The problem is not clock skips backward one second, because most of the time that's not what

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread Harlan Stenn
shawn wilson writes: On Jun 23, 2015 6:26 AM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: Blocking NTP at the NTP edge will probably work fine for most situations. Bear in mind that your NTP edge is not necessarily the same as your network edge. E.g. you might have internal GPS / radio

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-23 Thread Matthew Huff
A backward step is a known issue and something that people are more comfortable dealing with as it can happen on any machine with a noisy clock crystal. Having 61 seconds in a minute or 86401 seconds in a day is a different story. On Jun 23, 2015, at 8:37 PM, Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org wrote:

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Harlan Stenn
Tony Finch writes: Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org wrote: It's a problem with POSIX, not UTC. UTC is monotonic. The problems are that UTC is unpredictable, and it breaks the standard labelling of points in time that was used for hundreds (arguably thousands) of years before 1972. You

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Doug Barton
On 6/19/15 2:58 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: Bad idea. When restarting ntpd your clocks will likely be off by a second, which will cause a backward step, which will force the problem you claim to be avoiding. There are plenty of ways to solve this problem, and you just get to choose what you want

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Harlan Stenn
Doug Barton writes: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) On 6/19/15 2:58 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: Bad idea. When restarting ntpd your clocks will likely be off by a second, which will cause a backward step, which will force the problem you claim to be avoiding. There

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:38:28PM +, Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-li...@lists.zabbadoz.net wrote a message of 17 lines which said: So we need a new center of the universe and switch to stardate and thus solve the

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Alan Buxey
I do feel sorry for you unix/linux users having a problem in year 2038 fortunately I get another ~ 8 years... my Amiga gets its first big problem in 2046 ;-) http://web.archive.org/web/19981203142814/http://www.amiga.com/092098-y2k.html alan PS if i get to see the 2078 issue I'll be old

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Tony Finch
Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org wrote: It's a problem with POSIX, not UTC. UTC is monotonic. The problems are that UTC is unpredictable, and it breaks the standard labelling of points in time that was used for hundreds (arguably thousands) of years before 1972. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 22 Jun 2015, at 12:27 , Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 01:15:41PM +0100, Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote a message of 15 lines which said: The problems are that UTC is unpredictable, That's because the earth rotation is unpredictable. Any time

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 01:15:41PM +0100, Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote a message of 15 lines which said: The problems are that UTC is unpredictable, That's because the earth rotation is unpredictable. Any time based on this buggy planet's movements will be unpredictable. Let's patch it

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:38:28PM +, Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-li...@lists.zabbadoz.net wrote a message of 17 lines which said: So we need a new center of the universe and switch to stardate and thus solve the 32bit UNIX time problem for real this time? Or simply use TAI which is the

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Tony Finch
Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr wrote: That's because the earth rotation is unpredictable. Any time based on this buggy planet's movements will be unpredictable. Let's patch it now! http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2015-May/022280.html

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2015-06-22 14:44 +0200), Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Or simply use TAI which is the obvious time reference for Internet devices. Using UTC in routers is madness. Routers and Internet servers should use TAI internally and use UTC only when communicating with humans (the inferior life form

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Tony Finch
shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: So, what we should do is make clocks move. 9 slower half of the year (and then speed back up) so that we're really in line with earth's rotational time. That's how UTC worked in the 1960s. ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/tai-utc.dat It causes problems

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread Randy Bush
we can just turn the internet off for an hour until the dust settles.

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-22 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 08:29 Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 01:15:41PM +0100, Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote a message of 15 lines which said: The problems are that UTC is unpredictable, That's because the earth rotation is unpredictable. Any time

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-21 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 1:06 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:06:29 -0400, Jay Ashworth said: [snip] I'll let the perpetrator, Richard Stallman, explain. It was a kerfluffle regarding whether

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-21 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 1:06 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:06:29 -0400, Jay Ashworth said: [snip] I'll let the perpetrator, Richard Stallman, explain. It was a kerfluffle regarding whether /bin/du should use units of 1,000 or 1024.

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-21 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:06:29 -0400, Jay Ashworth said: - Original Message - From: Valdis Kletnieks valdis.kletni...@vt.edu I wonder how many of us are old enough to remember what that environment variable *used* to be called before political correctness became important. There

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
Mel Beckman writes: Harlan, This is cisco's recommended workaround, the ultimate conclusion of an exhau= stive study of all Cisco firmware and after detailed post mortem analysis o= f two previous Leap seconds: https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCut33302 Fair enough. And I've been

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-20 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2015-06-19 21:53 +), Harlan Stenn wrote: It's a problem with POSIX, not UTC. UTC is monotonic. You're right. Hopefully POSIX will become monotonic next year, by removal of leaps from UTC. -- ++ytti

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - - use the posix-right timezone files What; not posixly-correct? Cheers, -- jr ':-)' a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-20 Thread Steve Allen
On Sat 2015-06-20T10:48:17 +0300, Saku Ytti hath writ: You're right. Hopefully POSIX will become monotonic next year, by removal of leaps from UTC. Probably not. The ITU-R has outlined four methods for this issue, see

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
shawn wilson writes: ... I mean letting computers figure out slower earth rotation on the fly would seem more accurate than leap seconds anyway. And then all of us who do earthly things and would like simpler libraries could live in peace. Really? Have you looked in to those calculations,

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-20 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 19, 2015 2:05 PM, Saku Ytti s...@ytti.fi wrote: On (2015-06-19 13:06 -0400), Jay Ashworth wrote: Hey, The IERS will be adding a second to time again on my birthday; 2015-06-30T23:59:60 Hopefully this is last leap second we'll ever see. Non-monotonic time is an abomination and

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-20 Thread shawn wilson
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015, 14:16 Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org wrote: shawn wilson writes: ... I mean letting computers figure out slower earth rotation on the fly would seem more accurate than leap seconds anyway. And then all of us who do earthly things and would like simpler libraries could

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 11:32:53 -0400, Jay Ashworth said: - Original Message - - use the posix-right timezone files What; not posixly-correct? I wonder how many of us are old enough to remember what that environment variable *used* to be called before political correctness became

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Valdis Kletnieks valdis.kletni...@vt.edu On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 11:32:53 -0400, Jay Ashworth said: - Original Message - - use the posix-right timezone files What; not posixly-correct? I wonder how many of us are old enough to remember what

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-19 Thread Baldur Norddahl
On 19 June 2015 at 23:58, Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org wrote: Bad idea. When restarting ntpd your clocks will likely be off by a second, which will cause a backward step, which will force the problem you claim to be avoiding. If you are afraid that your routers will crash due to the

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
Baldur Norddahl writes: On 19 June 2015 at 23:58, Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org wrote: Bad idea. When restarting ntpd your clocks will likely be off by a second, which will cause a backward step, which will force the problem you claim to be avoiding. If you are afraid that your

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
Bad idea. When restarting ntpd your clocks will likely be off by a second, which will cause a backward step, which will force the problem you claim to be avoiding. There are plenty of ways to solve this problem, and you just get to choose what you want to risk/pay. -- Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
Saku Ytti writes: Hopefully this is last leap second we'll ever see. Non-monotonic time is an abomination and very very few programs measuring passage of time are correct. Even those which are, usually are not portable, most languages do not even offer monotonic time in standard libraries.

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-19 Thread Mel Beckman
Harlan, This is cisco's recommended workaround, the ultimate conclusion of an exhaustive study of all Cisco firmware and after detailed post mortem analysis of two previous Leap seconds: https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCut33302 GSS Leap second update CSCut33302 Description Symptom:

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-19 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2015-06-19 13:06 -0400), Jay Ashworth wrote: Hey, The IERS will be adding a second to time again on my birthday; 2015-06-30T23:59:60 Hopefully this is last leap second we'll ever see. Non-monotonic time is an abomination and very very few programs measuring passage of time are correct.

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-19 Thread Alexander Maassen
So you need to wait one more second before you may pop the bottle? :) On Fri, June 19, 2015 7:06 pm, Jay Ashworth wrote: The IERS will be adding a second to time again on my birthday; 2015-06-30T23:59:59 2015-06-30T23:59:60 2015-07-01T00:00:00 Have fun, everyone. :-) Cheers, -- jra

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-19 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Date: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 01:06:22PM -0400 Quoting Jay Ashworth (j...@baylink.com): The IERS will be adding a second to time again on my birthday; This time around there are a number of Vendor C devices that will fail in spectacular ways if not upgraded with a

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-19 Thread Mel Beckman
The universal workaround is to simply disable NTP on your devices sometime on Leap-Second eave. This will let the clocks free-run over the one-second push, an event of which they will be blissfully ignorant. When you re-enable NTP after The Leap, normal, non-destructive, NTP convergence will

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

2015-06-19 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 06:29:34PM +, Mel Beckman wrote: The universal workaround is to simply disable NTP on your devices sometime on Leap-Second eave. This will let the clocks free-run over the one-second push, an event of which they will be blissfully ignorant. When you re-enable NTP

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-26 Thread Barry Shein
I'm pretty sure University College, London (UCL) had a 360/195 on the net in the late 1970s. I remember it had open login to I guess it was TSO? I'd play with it but couldn't really figure out anything interesting to do lacking all documentation and by and large motivation other than it was kind

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-26 Thread John Levine
Barney Wolff bar...@databus.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 06:42:51PM -0500, TR Shaw wrote: That made the transformers smaller/cooler and more efficient. I seem to remember a 195 as well but maybe it is just CRS. Google says the 360/195 did exist. But my baby was the 360/95, where the

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-26 Thread Barney Wolff
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 06:42:51PM -0500, TR Shaw wrote: That made the transformers smaller/cooler and more efficient. I seem to remember a 195 as well but maybe it is just CRS. Google says the 360/195 did exist. But my baby was the 360/95, where the first megabyte of memory was flat-film

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-25 Thread Ken Chase
I think devices would likely be fine, unless they're concerned with reconciling a leap-second updated ntp source and one that's not. Who wins? For most NTPs I would guess they're slaves to whatever feed and just 'believe' whatever they're told. (Sounds like a security hole waiting for high

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-25 Thread Karsten Elfenbein
Hi, Java had some issues with 100% CPU usage when NTP was running during the additional second in 2012. http://blog.wpkg.org/2012/07/01/java-leap-second-bug-30-june-1-july-2012-fix/ Google did something different to get the extra second in:

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-25 Thread John Levine
In article 201501251019290550.005c0...@smtp.24cl.home you write: I've always wondered why this is such a big issue, and why it's done as it is. A lot of people don't think the current approach is so great. In UNIX, for instance, time is measured as the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-25 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 01/25/2015 10:15 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: It shares another problem - that doing calculations across a boundary is difficult. If you have a recurring timer that pops at 23:58:30 on June 30, and you want another one in 2 minutes. do you want a timer that the next pop is at 00:00:30

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-25 Thread Barney Wolff
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 02:24:52PM -0800, Stephen Satchell wrote: Today's computers don't use clocks derived from 50- or 60-hertz power-line frequency. The last computer I remember seeing with such a clock was the IBM System/360. The System/370 used a motor-generator set for the power

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On 25 Jan 2015 17:29:25 +, John Levine said: It shares with time zones the problem that you cannot tell what the UNIX timestamp will be for a particular future time. If you want to have something happen at, say, July 2 2025 at 12:00 UTC you can guess what the timstamp for that will be,

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-25 Thread Ken Chase
the quote from the GNU coreutils manpages on Date Input Formats: Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make coherent mental reckoning in time all but impossible. Indeed, had some tyrannical god contrived to

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-25 Thread Mike.
On 1/25/2015 at 9:37 AM Jay Ashworth wrote: |This June 30th, 235959UTC will be followed immediately by 235960UTC. | |What will /your/ devices do? = I've always wondered why this is such a big issue, and why it's done as it is. In UNIX, for instance, time is measured as the number

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-25 Thread TR Shaw
On Jan 25, 2015, at 6:06 PM, Barney Wolff bar...@databus.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 02:24:52PM -0800, Stephen Satchell wrote: Today's computers don't use clocks derived from 50- or 60-hertz power-line frequency. The last computer I remember seeing with such a clock was the IBM

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-25 Thread Joe Klein
I spoke on time hacking and ntp 3 years ago at shmoocon. On Jan 25, 2015 12:28 PM, Ken Chase m...@sizone.org wrote: I think devices would likely be fine, unless they're concerned with reconciling a leap-second updated ntp source and one that's not. Who wins? For most NTPs I would guess