[NTLUG:Discuss] Slightly OT: Why would I care about Leap Seconds

[Chris Cox]

Fred James wrote:
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> 
> But I am interested none the less in why I might care (as in another 
> situation).  Perhaps you could expand on the the "There are many 
> critical infrastructure services that will not operate correctly unless 
> all hosts are in sync with each other" a little bit, please.  Thank you 
> in advance for any help you may be able to offer.

DNS, make (e.g. with NFS'd areas), clustering, Windows/Samba domain
stuff... there's more.... just off the top of my head.