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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: mikemol@×××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:32:51
Message-Id: 20120703032613.423aacdf@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug' by Michael Mol
1 On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:32:45 -0400
2 Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
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4 > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Alan McKinnon
5 > <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:35:50 +0700
7 > > Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
8 > >
9 > >> Just wondering... did Saturday's "Leap Second" bit your
10 > >> infrastructure?
11 > >
12 > > Nope, that a murmur, not a peep, barely even a log entry anywhere.
13 > > And no whinging customers (surprisingly!) Our ntp servers just
14 > > synced with the upstream stratum and carried on business as usual
15 > >
16 > > I'd like to boast that my time servers are awesome and the team
17 > > running them even more awesome, but the truth is this one took us
18 > > by surprise. You fellows in the US and Europe might be amazed by
19 > > this, but down here in Africa the leap-second wasn't announced AT
20 > > ALL. A few folk here and there knew of it, that's all. Me? I had to
21 > > find out from a Google news feed on Sunday evening.....
22 >
23 > You should have been following me on Twitter. I went with a text-only
24 > take on the "Brace yourselves" meme.
25 >
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27 Sorry, no can do. I don't do twitter.
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29 It's not personal, I just have this pro-verbosity thing going :-)
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34 Alan McKinnnon
35 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com