Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!OHIO-STATE.ARPA!Welch%osu-20 From: Welch%osu-20@OHIO-STATE.ARPA (Arun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox Subject: Leap-Second Message-ID: <8712302205.AA06497@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 30 Dec 87 22:04:35 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 9 For those of you with time-critical applications, remember to set your time servers forward this year, as 1987 has a leap-second. Also, note that the leap-second is being observed on a time-zone basis (New-york is going to be 3 hours and one second ahead of LA for 3 hours), so if your applications are dealing with processors across time zones then things are gonna get really wierd... ...arun -------