So would "supporting" the leap second in Python have made any difference? On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:23:45 -0400 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> wrote:
Even though many have hoped that the authorities would stop fiddling with our clocks, today a leap second will be inserted in UTC. Systems using Olson/IANA timezone database have a way to deal with this without adjusting their clocks, but few systems are configured that way:
$ TZ=right/UTC date -d @1341100824 Sat Jun 30 23:59:60 UTC 2012
If I believe the Internet, many server systems got broken by the leap second (*). Even one of our buildbots seems affected: - before: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Ubuntu%20LTS%203.x/builds/41... - after: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Ubuntu%20LTS%203.x/builds/42... (weird errors with timeouts, and a crash)
(*) https://linuxfr.org/users/nono/journaux/leap-second
Regards
Antoine.
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