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Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:03:01 -0400
On Jun 19, 2015 2:05 PM, "Saku Ytti" <saku () ytti fi> wrote:
On (2015-06-19 13:06 -0400), Jay Ashworth wrote: Hey,The IERS will be adding a second to time again on my birthday; 2015-06-30T23:59:60Hopefully this is last leap second we'll ever see. Non-monotonic time is
an
abomination and very very few programs measuring passage of time are
correct.
Even those which are, usually are not portable, most languages do not even offer monotonic time in standard libraries. Canada, China, England and Germany, shame on you for opposing
leapsecondless
UTC. Next year hopefully GPSTIME. TAI and UTC are the same thing, with
different
static offset.
Unlikely but here's hoping. I mean letting computers figure out slower earth rotation on the fly would seem more accurate than leap seconds anyway. And then all of us who do earthly things and would like simpler libraries could live in peace.
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- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND, (continued)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Alan Buxey (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Tony Finch (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND shawn wilson (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Tony Finch (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Damian Menscher via NANOG (Jun 24)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Tony Finch (Jun 25)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Stefan Schlesinger (Jun 25)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Damian Menscher via NANOG (Jun 25)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Tore Anderson (Jun 25)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Harlan Stenn (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Harlan Stenn (Jun 20)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND shawn wilson (Jun 20)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Mel Beckman (Jun 19)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Majdi S. Abbas (Jun 19)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Harlan Stenn (Jun 19)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Baldur Norddahl (Jun 19)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Harlan Stenn (Jun 19)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Mel Beckman (Jun 19)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Harlan Stenn (Jun 20)