[TUHS] Date madness
William Cheswick
ches at cheswick.com
Mon Dec 18 02:33:27 AEST 2017
No, these weren’t seconds updates (though Plan 9 has a list it applies.) These were
off-by-one-hour problems at each time shift. There would be a sudden flurry of
hard, indignant work, then repeat next time shift. This was in V10 Unix.
> On 17Dec 2017, at 11:19 AM, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>
> Year corrections? Don't recall that but there were a bunch of changes to handle the insertion of leap SECONDS over the years.
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> From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of William Cheswick
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> During my first few years in the Unix room (starting in 1988) there was what seemed like a semiannual flurry of leap year corrections made to research unix. Apparently, there was some aspect that kept misbehaving, with new bugs appearing at the next shift in time.
>
> I never bothered to investigate the specifics, but it happened over several years. There are probably some on this list who know more details.
>
> I don’t recall this being a problem on Plan 9.
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> ches
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