F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

Thu Jul 5 05:15:45 UTC 2012

On 7/4/2012 10:06 PM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote:
> 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
>
>

Right on!