1. HP-UX

Hi All, We are running the HP-UX 11.11 and Linux AS 3.0. so, shall we need to make any changes for leap second i.e. insert the leap second on 1st Jan 2006 or does the system have some setup which would take care of this automatically. Please advise. Regards, Inder (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I understand the NTP protocol, so keeping system time updated is not a problem. Standard C library routines like localtime() take a number of UTC seconds elapsed since the start of the epoch (Jan 1, 1970). These times in seconds can be a filetime, system time, or some other time in the past or... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I need a k-shell script that tests for leap-year. Does anyone have one at hand, need ASAP!!! (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Is there a function call in std library or unit command that returns the number of current leap seconds? GG (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Write a function called dateToDays that takes three parameters -a month string such as Sep, a day number such as 18, and a year number such as 1962-and return s the number of days from January 1, 1900, to the date. Notes: I am asking you to account for leap years. my script is not... (0 Replies)

6. Fedora

Have anybody heard about the Leap second problem Leap second :A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time. How could i avoid such thing in my script which i deal with... (6 Replies)

7. Solaris

I hear the Leap second for 2015 will occur on June 30 at 23:59:60 according to the wild rumours from internet the expected impact ranges from crashing to hanging servers. Can anybody share their preparations what they have done for solaris servers? are there any patches to install or workaround?... (1 Reply)