On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> wrote: > Once upon a time, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> said: >> Does anyone have a succinct summary of how to prove to >> management-types that a given linux box won't have a problem with the >> leap second? Like kernel > some_version, tzdata > some_version, >> tzdata-java > some_version? > > Only way to "prove" it is to set up a test and try it. I don't think I need to 'prove' that computer programs do repeatable things. I just want to know the version numbers that need to be installed - something relatively easy to check. > AFAIK there are > no known issues with an up-to-date system, Yeah, but you probably would have said that before the 2012 instance too... And what I really want to know is how 'out-of-date' a system can be. > but that was also true at the > last couple of leap seconds (the issues that happened were previously > unknown). Now we know the issues, and hopefully someone had done the simulation tests. I just want to know the specific kernel and package versions that have the fixes. But none of the links I've found discussing the issues boil it down to something a non-geek would want to see. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com