Hey, what happened to my leap second?

Hotblack Desiato

> while true; do date; sleep 0.1;done
Sat 31 Dec 23:59:58 GMT 2016
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^C
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Happy new year anyway....

feylya

Are you using an NTP server that smeared it?

Hotblack Desiato

This is openSUSE 42.2 with default settings.

ntp wasn't configured in YaST, but the time was within about a second of my phone and hasn't noticeably changed when I did configure it (ie.pool.ntp.org) will have to wait for the next leap second to see. I've definitely seen "60" appear as a leap second before...