The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) have announced that a positive leap second will be added to the end of December 2016, which will be 23:59:60 UTC
Here is a patch table for various Linux operating systems, with the minimum versions of each affected package that should be updated.
Distribution | ntp4 | Linux Kernel | tzdata5 |
---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu 10.04 | Not supported3 | 2.6.32-42.951 | Not available |
Ubuntu 12.04 | 4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.11 | 3.2.0-29.462 | 2016g-0ubuntu0.12.04 |
Ubuntu 14.04 | 4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.10 | 3.13.0-33.582 | 2016g-0ubuntu0.14.04 |
Ubuntu 16.04 | 4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.3 | Not affected | 2016g-0ubuntu0.16.04 |