IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Wed Aug 3 16:20:13 UTC 2022
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Beckman" <beckman at angryox.com>
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2022, Matthew Huff wrote:
> This shouldn't cause huge issues, as most systems will not freak out and
> die if the system clocks goes from 23:59:58 to 00:00:00. But things that
> were supposed to happen at 23:59:59 on that day will never occur.
> Hopefully the impact is minimal, but it won't be none.
Occurs to me that "the last second of today" is approximately a million times
more likely as a scheduling target than "the next to last second"; they should
drop 23:59:5*8* instead.
Cheers,
-- jra
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