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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 09:27:22 +0300
On (2012-07-03 16:53 -0700), Owen DeLong wrote:
Sure, but even with that, 99% of it has only a passing 'interesting' effect and then recovers.
Inclusive you no longer know order of events based on your logs, and virtually none of your software are logging 60th second. What are only interesting and what can cause with luck (or bad luck) catastrophic failures is guess work, no one is going to review all the code written, and almost all of it assumes monotonic time.
Quite. But it is not well known that unixtime travels backwards.In part because it shouldn't actually do so. It should simply chime 59 twice.
Chiming 59 twice is traveling backwards. It goes to what ever precision you have between 59 and 00, then it goes back to 59 flat. -- ++ytti
Current thread:
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?, (continued)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Saku Ytti (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Chris Adams (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jay Ashworth (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? Paul Graydon (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steve Allen (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Saku Ytti (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Keith Medcalf (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (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? Keith Medcalf (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Marshall Eubanks (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? George Herbert (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Randy Fischer (Jul 03)