By now Google is in the midst of their sinusoidal leap smear, so they won't go down. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html
The linux kernel hackers are pretty sure that they fixed the multiprocessor leap second lockup that happened 3.5 years ago. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479765 I'd love to learn whether Yahoo! has implemented a remedy for their 300000 machines in order to avoid another global outage for 100 million customers http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/questionnaire/result.php According to the prose in some news articles this is all due to the "breaking action of the tides" :-\ Happy leap second! -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs