F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

Wed Jul 4 04:02:57 UTC 2012

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Majdi S. Abbas <msa at latt.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:33:35PM -0400, Tyler Haske wrote:
>> 4 years. These things are supposed to be synced to a NTP source
>> anyway.
>>
>> Easiest solution is just remove leap second functionality from
>> mainline code, and make it something you have to special-compile for.
>
>         Please reconcile these two statements.
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         --msa

Someone running an NTP Server connected to a cesium clock could run
the leap-second time code. Since its *their job* to have the correct
time, they can do all the fancy rarely used things that make parts of
the Internet die every couple of years.