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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by iwwr on Monday January 05, 2015 @03:08PM (#8840810)
>Last time we had a leap second in 2012, it crashed a whole lot of web servers.

That exposed a bunch of underlying bugs, didn't it? It may be a good thing in the long run than without it, especially with a one year's head start.

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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by NelsonMinar on Monday January 05, 2015 @05:00PM (#8841499)
That's the optimistic view. But leap seconds also caused problems in 2008 and 2005. It seems more likely we'll just find some exciting new bugs. Hopefully not one that b0rks the whole kernel though.
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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by emptybits on Monday January 05, 2015 @04:40PM (#8841387)
Somewhere, there's a vindicated coder shouting, "See! I told you that extra code and storage to allow for a schedule of arbitrary future insertions of leap seconds would pay off!"
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