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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Leap second happening Post 302664947 by drl on Sunday 1st of July 2012 01:08:28 PM

07-01-2012

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Hi.

A few GNU/Linux seem to have produced a message about it:

Code:

Jun 30 18:59:59 (drl) kernel: [160267.112938] Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
Jun 30 18:59:59 vm-centos kernel: Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
(no messages from openSUSE 11.4)
(no messages from ubuntu 11.10)
(no messages from fedora 15)
(no messages from Solaris 10 10/08)
(no messages from FreeBSD, 8.0-RELEASE)
(no messages from Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0)

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