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Re: Leap second

Yes, it is interesting, but from another viewpoint: Why would they spend the time to code for this when almost everyone would be synching their clocks to a time server? 

Bill

David Gibbs wrote:


Ok, this is kind of interesting.

I was looking at the syslog messages on my linux system, I saw this
message: Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC.

I knew there was a leap second this year ... but I was kind of amazed
that my Redhat 7.3 system would know about it.

david

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