On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 9:44 AM, David Malone <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 05:05:45AM -0800, Hal Murray wrote:
> > [email protected] said:
> > > No NTP was running.
>
> > What software told the kernel that there was going to be a leap second
> at the
> > end of the day?
>
> I guess it was part of systemd?
>

Unless you explicitly install ntp, systemd runs an SNTP-like client to keep
the time increasing (say across reboots) and notify the kernel of pending
leap seconds.  In that circumstance one would expect to see ...59:59 twice.


https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-timesyncd.service.html
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