Re: hard crash on leap second
On 2008-12-31 19:10:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/31/08 18:49, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> System Events
>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=
>> Dec 31 18:59:59 p34 kernel: [38776.165550] Clock: inserting leap second
>> 23:59:60 UTC
>
> Why don't I see this in my syslog or dmesg?
Since it's a kernel message, it's at least in /var/log/kern.log, and
I have that one too:
Jan 1 00:59:59 ay kernel: [220491.482702] Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
But I hadn't any crash here.
BTW, I could also see:
$ while true; do TZ=UTC date; sleep 1; done
[...]
Wed Dec 31 23:59:58 UTC 2008
Wed Dec 31 23:59:59 UTC 2008
Wed Dec 31 23:59:59 UTC 2008
Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Thu Jan 1 00:00:01 UTC 2009
Thu Jan 1 00:00:02 UTC 2009
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