Re:GPS will broadcast a 0 second leap second in 128 days. Th...
by kaydub on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:11PM
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> This will cause no issues
It will most certainly cause some issues.
I worked somewhere that sold a software appliance back in the day. This software appliance did a bunch of ETL and ran analytics processes. We had a leap second that caused all the ETL jobs to stop working. 400 some appliances in different data centers that we had some connectivity through a VPN. It was not a fun experience but it has always kept leap seconds and time problems in the front of my mind.
It will most certainly cause some issues.
I worked somewhere that sold a software appliance back in the day. This software appliance did a bunch of ETL and ran analytics processes. We had a leap second that caused all the ETL jobs to stop working. 400 some appliances in different data centers that we had some connectivity through a VPN. It was not a fun experience but it has always kept leap seconds and time problems in the front of my mind.