Re: leap second and Centos

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Michael Hennebry
<hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Unix and ntp handle leap seconds a bit differently.
> Unix time increases during the leap second and drops back a second after.
> Ntp freezes time during the leap second.
> OS kernels may do either or neither.

Does anyone have a succinct summary of how to prove to
management-types that a given linux box won't have a problem with the
leap second?   Like kernel > some_version, tzdata > some_version,
tzdata-java > some_version?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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