REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

Wed Jun 24 18:33:13 UTC 2015

* Majdi S. Abbas

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 08:33:14AM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> > Leap years and DST ladjustments have never caused us any major
> > issues. It seems these code paths are well tested and work fine.
> 
> 	I've seen quite a few people that for whatever reason insist
> on running systems in local time zones struggle with the DST reverse
> step.  It's not nearly as much of a non-issue as you claim.

Read again, and note the word "us". I am describing my and my
employer's experience with past DST changes and leap years, and those
have indeed been completely uneventful.

YMMV.

> > The leap second in 2012 however ... total and utter carnage.
> > Application servers, databases, etc. falling over like dominoes. All
> > hands on deck in the middle of the night to clean up. It took days
> > before we stopped finding broken stuff.
> 
> 	"Total and utter carnage" is a bit of a stretch.

As above, I am speaking only about how the 2012 leap second went down
in our infrastructure. I stand by how I described the event.

Again, YMMV. If you plan on let your infrastructure deal with the
upcoming leap second head-on, I wish you the best of luck. Hopefully
all the bugs from 2012 have been fixed. I, however, certainly have no
intention of being the one to find out otherwise.

Tore