Re: leap second outage

Mikael Abrahamsson writes:

This is similar to the jiffycounter wrapping, since this doesn't happen that often, it's not commonly tested for. Good way is to start the jiffy counter so it wraps after 10 minutes of uptime. That way you'll run into any bugs quickly. Either we should abolish the leap second or we should make leap second adjustments (back and forth) on a monthly basis to exercise the code.

This is a hard sell though...

and it's perversely interesting. It would even be tolerable when the difference between UTC and UT1 is such that the insertions and deletions maintain the +/- .9 s difference. There would even be enough time to warn folks about this. H