Temp fix for linux leap second freeze

Like a lot of other people some of the servers I run have been affected by the leap second freeze. There's an easy (temp) fix to get the system running again without restarting (assuming you still have access to the system in question):

service ntp restart 
date -s "`date`"

That did the trick for all the affected servers I had - notably only the ones that were running Java services actually had issues...


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