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Ji Ruo
July 4th, 2012, 10:33 AM
Linux is being blamed for the crashes that occured after a second was added to clocks worldwide.

http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/linux-blamed-for-leap-second-that-humbled-internet/145702











(The title is a cheeky reference to one of my favourite producers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X70glX8WKoM) ;))

neu5eeCh
July 4th, 2012, 11:45 AM
Linux is being blamed for the crashes that occured after a second was added to clocks worldwide.

http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/linux-blamed-for-leap-second-that-humbled-internet/145702





That's it. I 'm switching to Arch! Wait a minute...

alphacrucis2
July 4th, 2012, 11:50 AM
See this thread on the kernel mailing list


http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/1/25

Paqman
July 4th, 2012, 12:21 PM
Technically it's a bug in the Earth. If it would just rotate at a constant speed like it's supposed to all this leap second malarky wouldn't be necessary.

Ji Ruo
July 4th, 2012, 12:44 PM
Technically it's a bug in the Earth. If it would just rotate at a constant speed like it's supposed to all this leap second malarky wouldn't be necessary.

Where do we submit a bug report?

Grenage
July 4th, 2012, 12:48 PM
Technically it's a bug in the Earth. If it would just rotate at a constant speed like it's supposed to all this leap second malarky wouldn't be necessary.

Lol, indeed.

pqwoerituytrueiwoq
July 4th, 2012, 02:03 PM
Where do we submit a bug report?
a church?
:lolflag:

kellemes
July 4th, 2012, 02:24 PM
delete

Paqman
July 4th, 2012, 06:42 PM
Where do we submit a bug report?

Tbh, I think the project's been abandoned and is looking for a maintainer.