It's a shame, that after 44 years of leap seconds there is still professional (yeah?) software that can't handle them.
Kees. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: 02 January, 2017 23:22 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Here comes an extra second On Sun, 1 Jan 2017 22:02:30 -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > >> We have empirical proof of that at one of my clients . Took down a >> monitoring system this evening. > >And we were not alone: >https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affected-cloudflare-dns/ > I read the article. The system involved duplicated the second at 23:59:59 so a time reading late in the first occurrence subtracted from a reading early in the second occurrence produced a negative elapsed time. A validity check failed and triggered a shutdown. That coudn't happen on z/OS which (almost entirely) shuts down for the duration of the leap second so time values are bound to appear monotonic. Did it happen on z/OS? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
