F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

Thu Jul 5 05:06:31 UTC 2012

On 7/5/2012 12:47 AM, Roy wrote:
> Rather than discussing the pros and cons of UTC and leap seconds, just 
> create your own time system.
>
> You could call it OpenTime.  OpenTime will use NTP servers where the 
> Stratum 1 servers are synced to some time standard that doesn't care 
> about leap seconds.  That way the consumer can chose to connect his 
> machines to UTC or OpenTime.
>

Oblig:  http://xkcd.com/927/

- Pete


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