Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

[Tyler Haske <tyler.haske () gmail com>]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Majdi S. Abbas <msa () latt net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:33:35PM -0400, Tyler Haske wrote:
> > 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.
>
>         Please reconcile these two statements.
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         --msa

Someone running an NTP Server connected to a cesium clock could run
the leap-second time code. Since its *their job* to have the correct
time, they can do all the fancy rarely used things that make parts of
the Internet die every couple of years.