LionsPhil's laptops* wish you a Happy New 2009.
From left to right: Felix, Ubutu 7.10, showing venerable old xclock (by far the easiest to see: take that, OpenGL-pixel-shaded ricers), although sadly the UNIX epoch seconds display is obscured by Nermal, running XP on a screen too small and unzoomed to let you see the Date & Time Properties (the terminal is IRC, where it suddenly wakes up from lag and realises that ZeppleBot did a countdown), which is also perched on Parsley, running this, the Date & Time Settings, and an SSH session to ddate elsewhere (see footnote).
You can see the setup in slightly better quality when my camera is acting as a camera. I'm kind of disappointed that I can't see any interesting effects of the leap second-they all seem to have sailed on regardless and will presumably smear it away with NTP realignment shenanigans next time they poke the server and realise they're out of sync. Felix's logs didn't show anything fun.
Updated: Oh, hang on, looks like Panther did the UNIX last-second-happens-twice trick:
23:59 <@ZeppleBot> 2!!!!!!!! 23:59 <@ZeppleBot> 1!!!!!!!!! 23:59 <@ZeppleBot> 1!!!!!!!!! Day changed to 01 Jan 2009 00:00 <@ZeppleBot> HAPPY NEW YEAR! OMGBBQ
* Strictly not entirely true; Cheese, the old Mac G3, is missing due to MacOS 9 not standing a chance of knowing about the leap second and also being a bit of a faff given the limited space; Panther, the Ubuntu 8.04 R40, is telecommuting from labs via the SSH sesson on Parsley's screen.
