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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen () leitl org>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:32:00 +0200
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:26:22AM -0700, Roy wrote:
Remember OpenTime is only for people who want their system clocks to ignore leap seconds. I don't include myself among the possible users of OpenTime.
Obviously you need a machine time, which is monotonous, high-resolution (you don't need too many bits even if you resolve down to Planck time and gigayears) and works on any planetary body or in space at any speed, and a human time, which is dynamically derived from machine time, using algorithms depending on particular location and occasion. The sooner we can separate the machine time from people time, the better.
Current thread:
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?, (continued)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Majdi S. Abbas (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Roy (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Kristolaitis (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Roy (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Roy (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steve Allen (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Roy (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tyler Haske (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Eugen Leitl (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Eugen Leitl (Jul 05)