[tz] Best practices for upcoming leap second event
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sun Jun 28 16:00:39 UTC 2015
If you're responsible for proper timekeeping you probably have already thought
about the upcoming leap second at the end of Tuesday 2015-06-30 UTC. This is
the first leap second in eighteen years that has fallen on a non-holiday
weekday. It might not hurt to run through your checklist again, and (if you
haven't already done so) compare it to the checklist recommended by GPS.GOV,
NAVCEN, NCCIC, NIST, and USNO. You can find that checklist here:
http://www.gps.gov/news/2015/05/leap-second/2015-best-practices-for-leap-second.pdf
The new leap second has been in the tz database since release 2015a dated
2015-01-29 22:35:20 -0800, so if you're newer than that you should be good as
far as tz is concerned. In the typical case where you're not using tz's
leap-second support, you don't need to worry about tz at all.
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