[Info-vax] Leap second checking

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <0049cc63$0$11594$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> As you may have heard, the economic slowdown of 2008 has caused the
> earth to slow its course around the sun and they had to add an extra
> second to 2008 before allowing 2009 to start.
> 
> While Microsoft's zune crashed at the tought of a leap year, there have
> been a few reports of some unix systems crashing because of the leap second.
> 
> My VMS and os-X systems did not complain.
> 
> However, how can I check if those systems actually processed the leap
> second and are in sync with the real time of 2009 ?

Are you running NTP?  If you are not, it is highly ulikely your system time
is accurate enough that the leap second made any difference one way or the
other regardless of the OS in use.

bill


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