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Monday, January 5, 2009
Leap Second
Look what I found in the kernel log of a Linux system:
Dec 31 18:59:59 portal-01 kernel: Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
I knew we added a leap second this year, but I didn't know it would get recorded as such.
That's awesome!
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Catherine Powell
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