REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

Damian Menscher damian at google.com
Thu Jun 25 01:14:14 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 7:17 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > So, what we should do is make clocks move. 99999 slower half of the year
> (and then speed back up) so that we're really in line with earth's
> rotational time. I mean we've got the computers to do it (I think most RTC
> only go down to thousandths so it'll still need a little skewing but I'm
> sure we'll manage).
>
> Ps - if anyone actually does this, I'm going postal.
>

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html
comes dangerously close to your modest proposal.

Damian



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