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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Leap second happening Post 302664915 by jim mcnamara on Sunday 1st of July 2012 11:22:51 AM

07-01-2012

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I would not worry about it. You will notice that timekeeping structures like struct stat and struct tm (standard C, which is the basis of timekeeping in UNIX) are leap-second aware.

Leap seconds are kept by Linux. And shells there are compliant with it. This is true only if the box is connected to an ntp service. Tracking leap seconds is not required by POSIX, so your OS may not care. What OS do you have?

Unless you are doing precision time keeping like GPS, Realtime device monitoring, or Astronomy, it will NOT break what you are doing. Since you asked the question, I'm pretty sure you cannot be involved in something that would be affected in any way.

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