Leap Seconds in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Log in to Your Red Hat Account

Your Red Hat account gives you access to your profile, preferences, and services, depending on your status.

If you are a new customer, register now for access to product evaluations and purchasing capabilities.

Need access to an account?

If your company has an existing Red Hat account, your organization administrator can grant you access.

If you have any questions, please contact customer service.

Red Hat Account Number:

Red Hat Account

Customer Portal

For your security, if you’re on a public computer and have finished using your Red Hat services, please be sure to log out.

Select Your Language

Issue

Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 properly handle leap seconds?
IERS have announced a leap second due at midnight, June 30th this year. Red Hat needs to release an updated tzdata, so it can transition smoothly along precise NTP systems.
There will be a leap second end of June 2012. We would like to know if our servers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will support it correctly.
Can the leap second message hang the kernel?
Does the issue described in article 15145 affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3

Subscriber exclusive content

A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase of over 48,000 articles and solutions.

Current Customers and Partners

Log in for full access

Log In

New to Red Hat?

Learn more about Red Hat subscriptions

Welcome! Check out the Getting Started with Red Hat page for quick tours and guides for common tasks.

Here are the common uses of Markdown.

Code blocks

~~~
Code surrounded in tildes is easier to read
~~~

Links/URLs

[Red Hat Customer Portal](https://access.redhat.com)