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Re: [LUG] leap second

 


On 10/01/2015 23:22, Simon Waters wrote:
> 
> On 2015-01-10 01:51, bad apple wrote:
>> http://www.wired.com/2015/01/torvalds_leapsecond/ 
> Did anyone actually have any servers affected by last leap second?
> 
> I saw the fuss, but nothing I was responsible for glitched.
> 
> With Gordon on the GMT/BST thing couple of Debian boxes did stupid CRON
> things on various transitions, on inspection one of them had coded their
> CRON scripts to try and cope with BST transition, when Vixie CRON
> already did that correctly.
> 
> Bug report was basically "cut the messing about and it will work better".
> 
> Really though there is no reason to run Linux servers in anything by
> GMT, and just set environment variable or settings for program output to
> have the right timezone. May require re-education of users. Bit of a
> pain when the displayed time is an hour out, but saves a whole lot of
> messing once you are trying to track failures across multiple timezones.
> 
> "What is this log entry in?" "GMT like all the others".
> 
> Although I confess getting it all to GMT is on the to do list for some
> of my current servers. For one off servers getting the time zone right
> is probably easier than using GMT. YMMV
> 

As one of the companies I contract has facilities on all continents and
most time zones  all their logs anywhere are in GMT, users trained to
put local time of sending or composition of documents etc inside
document / email for local use. Main Servers in EU, UK, USA, Singapore
(They back up each other) with local servers in  PR China,  Taiwan
(ROC), Japan, Korea , South America

-- 
regards
Eion MacDonald

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