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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: Tyler Haske <tyler.haske () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 23:33:35 -0400
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:15 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com> wrote:
It's not a butthead thing to do to assert that the Internet's stability in this matter now outweighs an arbitrary and abstract argument among timekeepers. We matter more than they do, now. If they want to keep a more true Solar Time they can do so; we can run on atomic and put this silly notion of trying to say Sun-centric behind us. This is the 21st century. Leapsecondo Delenda Est!
I don't see why everyday computers, servers, and routers need the functionality to add (or subtract) an arbitrary second once every 3 or 4 years. These things are supposed to be synced to a NTP source anyway. Easiest solution is just remove leap second functionality from mainline code, and make it something you have to special-compile for. The fact there is a 400 page book on the subject really makes me wonder how well the average kernel hacker is doing the implementation. (Oh wait, we saw EXACTLY how well it was done). All this is a time bomb (lame I know) waiting to go off every few years there is a leap second. We get to find out which servers are running which out-of-date kernels that attempt to implement some arcane time function practically no one cares about. (Sorry time aficionados. I appreciate your work, but I'd rather just look it up and not trust my computer to calculate it.)
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- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?, (continued)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Vadim Antonov (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steve Allen (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Vadim Antonov (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Christopher Morrow (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jimmy Hess (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jay Ashworth (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steve Allen (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? George Herbert (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tyler Haske (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Majdi S. Abbas (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tyler Haske (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Robert E. Seastrom (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jimmy Hess (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steve Allen (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Scott Howard (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Dave Hart (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Saku Ytti (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? valdis . kletnieks (Jul 03)