[time-nuts] Leap-second capture on laptop

Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) drkirkby at kirkbymicrowave.co.uk
Sat Dec 31 20:27:01 EST 2016


On 1 January 2017 at 01:00, Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>
wrote:

> Fellow time-nuts,
>
> While not fancy by any means, my laptop captured the leap-second being
> inserted by this message in the /var/log/syslog:
> Jan  1 00:59:59 greytop kernel: [78458.839942] Clock: inserting leap
> second 23:59:60 UTC
>

Noting reported on my Sun Ultra 27 running OpenSolaris.

Dec 31 23:55:02 hawk sendmail[4016]: [ID 801593 mail.info] uBVNt2jv004015:
to=<root at hawk.local>, ctladdr=<root at hawk.local> (0/0), delay=00:00:00,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30730, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Jan  1 00:00:02 hawk sendmail[4055]: [ID 801593 mail.info] v01002rm004055:
from=root, size=319, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<201701010000.v01002rm004055 at hawk.local>, relay=root at localhost


This OS has not been updated for years

drkirkby at hawk:~$ cat /etc/release
                       OpenSolaris Development snv_134 X86
           Copyright 2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                             Assembled 01 March 2010


Dave


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