Anyone else experiencing high rates of Linux server crashes during a leap second day?

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THE WORKAROUND

Ok people, here’s how I worked around it.

  1. disabled ntp: /etc/init.d/ntp stop
  2. created http://linux.brong.fastmail.fm/2012-06-30/fixtime.pl (code stolen from Marco, see blog posts in comments)
  3. ran fixtime.pl without an argument to see that there was a leap second set
  4. ran fixtime.pl with an argument to remove the leap second

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