REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

Tue Jun 23 13:07:42 UTC 2015

> On Jun 22, 2015, at 7:06 PM, Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> wrote:
> 
> Time going backwards is deadly to a number of applications.
> 
> But apparently not to applications you care about.

Oh it is a problem, and most handle it very ungracefully, such as dovecot which just dies:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards

The issue is also most people are used to using rc.local or rc.* type scripts to spawn a daemon which leads to the next major sysadmin/developer problem with is handling error cases improperly or not at all.  (86401 is perhaps and error case that people should test for).

- Jared