topic Re: Clock: inserting leap second in Operating System - Linux

Clock: inserting leap second

itai weisman — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:37:40 GMT

Hi everyone,
I recieved this message on several 2.4.21-15.ELsmp machines (RHEL 3 update 2)
does anyone know what it means?

Re: Clock: inserting leap second

Sergejs Svitnevs — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:06:11 GMT

an NTP daemon detects a leap second announcement notifies its own operating system clock of the upcoming leap second.
The leap second was added.

more info can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

Regards,
Sergejs

Re: Clock: inserting leap second

Uwe Zessin — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:06:55 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

Re: Clock: inserting leap second

Rick Garland — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:18:07 GMT

Basically telling you a leap second was added - no action required