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Leaping seconds and looping servers

Leaping seconds and looping servers

Posted Jul 4, 2012 15:05 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Leaping seconds and looping servers by paulj
Parent article: Leaping seconds and looping servers

Not under POSIX time they can't. One of those seconds might take 2s to pass, is all. It's a different tradeoff (and one that is intolerable for some applications, though perhaps not as intolerable as a livelock!)


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Leaping seconds and looping servers

Posted Jul 4, 2012 15:29 UTC (Wed) by Tobu (subscriber, #24111) [Link]

Or said second happens twice, if you have higher-resolution POSIX timestamps.

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