It was quite interesting to watch Twitter during the leap-second, it is pretty obvious that John Olivers attention to the leap-second vastly increased the awareness.
Given that awareness has always been the major deficiency about leap-seconds he may just have saved them, by showing that awareness is possible. That being said, it's appalling how much of the news coverage has not been able to get even basic facts right, leaving a lot of people with really weird ideas, from leapsecond happening at local midnight to all days henceforth being one second longer. It's pretty obvious from this: https://twitter.com/theckman/status/616039183648337920/photo/1 That the leap-second was anything but flawlessly executed, but we don't know how much of that is bugs in monitoring and how much is bugs in production. I'm not quite sure about the consequence of this one: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/437 But it seems possible that large fraction of Linux systems have been following Googles leap-smear without knowing it because of systemd. It will be some days before news from "Serious IT"™ filters out through the press-officers to the world at large, most of them will try to sweep any troubles under the rug as usual. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs