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Message-ID: <3ae3aa420901042148o1c96985dube8e03085c997a07@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:48:31 -0600
From: "Linas Vepstas" <linasvepstas@...il.com>
To: "David Newall" <davidn@...idnewall.com>
Cc: david@...g.hm, "Kyle Moffett" <kyle@...fetthome.net>,
"Ben Goodger" <goodgerster@...il.com>,
"Robert Hancock" <hancockr@...w.ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <jeff@...owsky.org>,
MentalMooMan <slashdot@...eshallam.info>,
"Travis Crump" <pretzalz@...hhouse.org>, burdell@...ntheinter.net
Subject: Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009
2009/1/4 David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>:
> david@...g.hm wrote:
>> then new zoneinfo files need to be sent out every time there is a leap
>> second (which from other posts on this thread is potentially every month)
>
> Not every few months, for goodness sake! Leap seconds aren't that
> common!
But they could be. Appearenly, there was a very long,
multi-year lull, where no leap-seconds were required.
Its not fully understood why, as they used to be common.
Maybe its the melting glaciers :-)
There *was* talk of eliminating them forever (so as to
avoid this kind of bug, which affects banks, satellites,
telecom equipment, etc.) but I guess they didn't do it.
--linas
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