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>Last time we had a leap second in 2012, it crashed a whole lot of web servers. That exposed a bunch of underlying bugs, didn't it? It may be a good thing in t
by iwwr 12y ago
>Last time we had a leap second in 2012, it crashed a whole lot of web servers.
That exposed a bunch of underlying bugs, didn't it? It may be a good thing in the long run than without it, especially with a one year's head start.
- emptybits 12y agoSomewhere, there's a vindicated coder shouting, "See! I told you that extra code and storage to allow for a schedule of arbitrary future insertions of leap seconds would pay off!"
- NelsonMinar 12y agoThat's the optimistic view. But leap seconds also caused problems in 2008 and 2005. It seems more likely we'll just find some exciting new bugs. Hopefully not one that b0rks the whole kernel though.