[Python-ideas] Happy leap second

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:23:45 -0400
Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopolsky at 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/419
- after:
http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Ubuntu%20LTS%203.x/builds/420
(weird errors with timeouts, and a crash)


(*) https://linuxfr.org/users/nono/journaux/leap-second

Regards

Antoine.