Does anyone know what the latest that we can run our NTP servers and not distribute the LEAP_SECOND flag to the NTP clients?
> On Jun 24, 2015, at 2:33 PM, Tore Anderson <t...@fud.no> wrote: > > * 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
