http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:45:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/leap-second-to-be-added-dec-31-2008.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/leap-second-to-be-added-dec-31-2008.html#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:28:25 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=4247 Get ready for a minute with 61 seconds. Scientists are delaying the start of 2009 by the first 'leap second' a timing tweak meant to make up for changes in the Earth's rotation.

The aged Earth is slowing down in its daily rotation, at least in the current epoch. So a leap second is added (a one-second adjustment added) to our time. This year will be exactly one second longer.

Precise time measurements are needed for high-speed communications systems among other modern technologies such as clusters, GPS, networks. You need to make sure that you are running updated version of ntpd that support leap second for UNIX and Windows computers.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/leap-second-to-be-added-dec-31-2008.html/feed 0