IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

Wed Aug 3 15:54:05 UTC 2022

This is why we've internally standardized on Leap smearing, an added benefit is that it keeps us in sync with Google and AWS who also smear time in the same way.

Daniel Marks
d at nielmarks.com

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On Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 at 11:33 AM, Matthew Huff <mhuff at ox.com> wrote:

> True,
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> But it's hard enough to get developers to understand the need to code for 61 seconds in a minute, and now they would need to code for 59 seconds as well.
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> If time systems simply skewed the time so that 60 seconds actually just took 61 seconds or 59 seconds, there would be other issues, but coders wouldn't be involved.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG nanog-bounces+mhuff=ox.com at nanog.org On Behalf Of Stephane Bortzmeyer
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:19 AM
> To: Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
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> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...
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> On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:09:25AM -0400, Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com wrote a message of 32 lines which said:
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> > General press loses its mind:
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> Indeed, they seem not to know what they write about. "atomic time – the universal way time is measured on Earth – may have to change" They don't even know the difference between TAI and UTC.