[Python-ideas] Happy leap second

[Guido van Rossum]

So would "supporting" the leap second in Python have made any difference?

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:23:45 -0400
> Alexander Belopolsky
> <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Even though many have hoped that the authorities would stop fiddling
>> with our clocks, today a leap second will be inserted in UTC.
>> Systems using Olson/IANA timezone database have a way to deal with
>> this without adjusting their clocks, but few systems are configured
>> that way:
>>
>> $ TZ=right/UTC date -d @1341100824
>> Sat Jun 30 23:59:60 UTC 2012
>
> If I believe the Internet, many server systems got broken by the leap
> second (*).
> Even one of our buildbots seems affected:
> - before:
> http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Ubuntu%20LTS%203.x/builds/419
> - after:
> http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Ubuntu%20LTS%203.x/builds/420
> (weird errors with timeouts, and a crash)
>
>
> (*) https://linuxfr.org/users/nono/journaux/leap-second
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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