F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

Sun Jul 1 02:49:57 UTC 2012

Hi!

>> Drive Slow
>> Paul

> Not very well if you have a modern box (RHES/CentOS 6) and Java apps running 
> on them.  RHES/CentOS 5 merrily ignored it.  Worse, just bouncing the Java 
> stack didn't fix it, it required the box to be rebooted.  A sizeable number 
> of annoyed sysadmins tweeting about it this afternoon.

Anything with java running seems hit.
We just finished up a firm round of reboots... :(

Recent Ubuntu boxes and RHES 6... all the same ...

Bye,
Raymond.