24 Dec
2016
24 Dec
'16
1:33 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
Let me be the first to say that the International
Earth Rotation Service
has announced that there will be a Leap Second inserted at 23:59:59 UTC on
the 31st December, due to the earth slowly slowing down.
A year and half ago, a running Multics emulation (Multics, so slightly on
topic) was crashed by the leap second. An improbable race condition in a in
a messaging library used by the DPS8M emulator fired an assertion, bring
the whole thing down.
-- Charles