REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

shawn wilson ag4ve.us at gmail.com
Sat Jun 20 18:58:56 UTC 2015


On Sat, Jun 20, 2015, 14:16 Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> wrote:
>
> shawn wilson writes:
> > ... I mean letting computers figure out slower earth rotation on the
> > fly would seem more accurate than leap seconds anyway. And then all of
> > us who do earthly things and would like simpler libraries could live
> > in peace.
>
> Really?  Have you looked in to those calculations, and I'm only talking
> about the allegedly predictable parts of those calculations, not things
> like the jetstream, the circumpolar currents, or earthquakes.
>

Ok, forget that point - AFAIK, the only things that matter wrt time is
agreement on interval/counter and epoch, and stability. Right now we only
have agreement on interval.

So while I'd prefer a consistent epoch and counter, I'll live with whatever
as we have access to board agreement and stability (like this doesn't hit
NANOG every time with "uh oh").



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